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Citizens and the city: the case for participatory budgeting in the City of Zagreb [PDF]
Public 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
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Gap of Understanding on Citizen Participatory Budgeting
The 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
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ASEAN 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
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PARTICIPATORY BUDGET VS. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
Zeszyty 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
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Political participation and grassroots governance: A social work perspective based on CGSS 2021 data. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study, based on the 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS), examines how different forms of political participation-spanning behavior, attitude, and affiliation -shape perceptions of grassroots governance effectiveness in safety, convenience, and ...
Xiao Zhang +3 more
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‘Will my fingerprint be enough?’: secondary school students struggle to purchase a healthy, tasty and sustainable meal on the UK free school meal allowance [PDF]
Public Health NutritionObjective: Free school meals (FSM) are a crucial form of support for families. This study aimed to investigate whether the FSM allowance can provide what is perceived to be, healthy, sustainable and satisfying food.
Sundus Mahdi +3 more
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Saint Petersburg Experience of Participatory Budgeting [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2021 The article is devoted to summarizing the experience of implementing participatory budgeting practices in Saint Petersburg over a five-year period as well as the role and forms of citizen involvement in budget decision-making.
Natalia G. Lukyanova
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Ecology Projects and Participatory Budgeting: Enhancing Citizens’ Support [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 In contemporary times, a large number of ecology projects are put on the public agenda through participatory budgeting. There is variation in the support they receive from citizens, but until now we have not known what drives this support. This article aims to identify the factors that could determine the support for ecology projects in participatory ...
Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap
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Increasing citizens involvement in participatory budgeting
Ekonomika a spoločnosť, 2023 The purpose of this study is to present findings from a research project which investigates the possibilities of how to improve citizen involvement in participatory budgeting. We collaborated with the town of Hlohovec, Slovak Republic. We used behavioural interventions to increase the number of both projects submitted and voter participation.
Roman Klimko +2 more
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Participatory Budget and Citizens’ Empowerment in Mexico City
Sociológica, 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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