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Citizen participation in times of crisis: Understanding participatory budget during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

open access: yesASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 2020
This research assumes that various forms and scales of lockdowns and social distancing measures have limited local decision-makers’ ability to reach out to communities as part of their mandatory annual participatory budgeting processes.
Thaneshwar
doaj   +4 more sources

Participatory Budget and Citizens’ Empowerment in Mexico City

open access: yesSociológica, 2023
Nine participatory budget (Spanish acronym PP) polling processes in Mexico City’s 1,800 territorial units ended with works and services mostly induced by the authorities, with scant participation by the public, without building identity or social fabric, and with limited appropriation of the participatory mechanism.
Cuauhtémoc Ochoa Tinoco   +2 more
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Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
There is rising scholarly and political interest in participatory budgets and their potential to advance urban sustainability. This article aims to contribute to this field of study through the specific lens of the city of Lisbon’s experience as an internationally acknowledged leader in participatory budgeting.
Falanga, Roberto   +2 more
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Citizens and the city: the case for participatory budgeting in the City of Zagreb [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Sector Economics, 2019
Since there is constant concern that local government heads allocate budget resources in favour of various pressure groups, the paper investigates whether local participatory budgeting can be implemented in order to better align budget allocation with ...
Sandra Svaljek   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Effects of Participatory Budgeting and Transparency on Budget Allocation Outcomes in South Korea

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
Despite a growing literature stream, debates con­tinue regarding the effects of citizen participation in public budgeting on budget allocation outcomes. This study addresses this research gap by analyzing data from the early stages of mandatory participa­
Heontae Shin, B. Shine Cho, Youngmin Oh
doaj   +2 more sources

Design of the participatory budget: how to turn citizens into process protagonists

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Sector Management, 2022
PurposeIn the New Public Governance (NPG) paradigm, citizens play a vital role in the decision-making of public organisations and are fundamental to aligning their expectations with service delivery. Citizen engagement could be realised in the budgeting process by adopting participatory budgeting (PB) even if previous literature on PB does not focus on
Giorgia Mattei   +2 more
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Gap of Understanding on Citizen Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesThe Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 2009
In contrary to the expectation of which it has a role to increase the transparency of and the responsibility of self-governing, the participatory budgeting even though aggravates perfunctoriness of participation and local conflicts in Korea. The problems are caused not from the institutional vices of participatory budgeting but from others which each ...
Gyum-Hun Kim, Eun-Ku Lee
exaly   +3 more sources

The evolution of participatory budgets in Polish local governments: The case of the Lodz Participatory Budget

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Administratio Locorum
Motives: The article examines the evolution of participatory budgeting (PB) in Poland over more than a decade, using the Lodz Participatory Budget (LPB) as an example.
Mateusz Marek Piasecki   +1 more
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PARTICIPATORY BUDGET VS. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2014
The paper presents the functioning of participatory budgeting in Poland on the example of townships of the Silesian province. It also asks a question whether the participatory budget contributes to local development.
Adam ŻABKA, Halina Łapińska
doaj   +17 more sources

Citizen Preference and Resource Allocation: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Seoul [PDF]

open access: yesLocal Government Studies, 2013
This article seeks to measure the extent to which the service priorities of citizens of Seoul, South Korea, are reflected in corresponding resource allocations in the city's budget, despite there being virtually no participation by citizens in the budget creation process.
Im, T, Lee, H, Cho, Wonhyuk, Campbell, J
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