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Towards increasing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting digital tools
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, 2018In this paper, we compile and describe features of participatory budgeting digital tools, and propose a number of potential future directions for those features that could increase citizen engagement.
Iván Cantador, María E. Cortés-Cediel
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Participatory Budgeting in Midwestern States: Democratic Connection or Citizen Disconnection?
Public Budgeting & Finance, 2009What participation mechanisms connect citizens and city officials? Do they produce valued outcomes? Surveys of elected officials suggest that microlevel mechanisms such as direct citizen contact are more valuable in meeting participation goals than are mechanisms focusing on macrolevel concerns.
AIMEE L. FRANKLIN +2 more
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Design of the participatory budget: how to turn citizens into process protagonists
International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2022PurposeIn 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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Citizens Engaging Government: Participatory Budgeting in Greensboro, North Carolina
Public Administration Quarterly, 2017Local governments are responding to growing pressures to increase transparency and citizen engagement, particularly in light of the fiscal stress created by the Great Recession. Historically, the budget process has been a target for these efforts, generally through public hearings and requirements for publicly available budget documents.
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Framing Citizen Participation: Participatory Budgeting in France, Germany and the United Kingdom
German Politics, 2015Anja Rocke's book is an innovative contribution to the debate about participatory democracy tools.
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2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2016
This exploratory paper reflects on the activities of an European project that explores novel forms of citizens engagement with the twofold objective of exploring alternative governance approaches to renewable energy sources and of reducing and optimizing energy consumption. This exploratory vision is inquired through the use of ICTs tools in connection
Capaccioli, Andrea +3 more
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This exploratory paper reflects on the activities of an European project that explores novel forms of citizens engagement with the twofold objective of exploring alternative governance approaches to renewable energy sources and of reducing and optimizing energy consumption. This exploratory vision is inquired through the use of ICTs tools in connection
Capaccioli, Andrea +3 more
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Participatory Budgeting as ‘Citizens’ Town’? The Case of Berlin Lichtenberg, Germany
2014Berlin was the first big city (with 3.46 million inhabitants in 2010) in Germany to implement a PB process. More importantly, Berlin was the first German city in which civil society activists, influenced by the Porto Alegre model and scandalised by a huge corruption case, placed participatory budgeting on the political agenda.
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The Role of Participatory Budgeting in Enhancing Citizen Engagement
SSRN Electronic JournalParticipatory budgeting (PB) has emerged as a transformative approach to local governance, designed to empower citizens by directly involving them in decision-making processes concerning public expenditures. This scientific article examines the role of participatory budgeting in enhancing citizen engagement, drawing upon theoretical perspectives ...
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Youth participation in institutional decision-making processes has become increasingly common since the turn of the century. The underlying idea is to foster young people to become active citizens and to give them a voice in political decision making.
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Participatory budgets at universities in Poland as a tool for educating young citizens
e-mentorIn addition to enabling students to acquire the knowledge and competencies necessary for their professions, higher education institutions should also support the formation of broad civic attitudes among students. University participatory budgets (PB) are an example of a tool for reaching this goal.
Dorota Bednarska-Olejniczak +1 more
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