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Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, 2018
Infused by the concepts of co-creation, participatory budgeting (PB) allows citizens to participate in the local government's budgetary decision-making process concerning the community-focused programs. Nonetheless, the attainment of PB success has always been challenged by various factors, including ineffectiveness and inefficiency of PB practice, and
Amizan Omar +2 more
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Infused by the concepts of co-creation, participatory budgeting (PB) allows citizens to participate in the local government's budgetary decision-making process concerning the community-focused programs. Nonetheless, the attainment of PB success has always been challenged by various factors, including ineffectiveness and inefficiency of PB practice, and
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Implementing bottlenecks and countermeasures of citizen participatory budgeting
2010 International Conference on Management Science & Engineering 17th Annual Conference Proceedings, 2010In recent years, technical problems was attached more importance in China's budget reform, such as zero-based budget and government procurement, however, how to deal with the relations between budget and democratic governance has been highlighted as a much deeper issue.
Dong Xiao-hui, Tan Ting
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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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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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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
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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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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. However, there
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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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2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2016
Governments and corporations try to engage their constituents and employees in participatory processes in order to enhance belongingness and motivation. At the same time, online-based crowdsourcing concepts have become ubiquitous. In this paper, we propose a novel concept of participatory budget allocation and sketch out an experimental design to ...
Claudia Niemeyer +3 more
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Governments and corporations try to engage their constituents and employees in participatory processes in order to enhance belongingness and motivation. At the same time, online-based crowdsourcing concepts have become ubiquitous. In this paper, we propose a novel concept of participatory budget allocation and sketch out an experimental design to ...
Claudia Niemeyer +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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