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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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Value Alignment in Participatory Budgeting
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsParticipatory budgeting empowers citizens to take an active role in shaping their government's policies by influencing the allocation of a limited budget.
Marc Serramia +3 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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Intensity and fragility of Czech participatory budgeting during the Covid 19 crisis
Public Money & ManagementIMPACT Participatory budgeting (PB) is widely understood to enhance citizen engagement in civic participation. The Covid 19 pandemic led to shifts in spending priorities for numerous municipalities, necessitating swift responses to rapidly changing ...
Soňa Kukučková +2 more
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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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A Model of Agency Behavior in Participatory Budgeting: A Resource Dependence Perspective
Journal of public administration research and theoryBased on resource dependence theory, this article theorizes why government agencies adopt citizen proposals in participatory budgeting. Agencies depend on the executive budget office and the legislature for budget approval, which makes them face ...
Seunghyun Kim
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Legal and Organizational Aspects of Engaging Citizens in the Budget Process at the Municipal Level
Town-planning lawThe article examines the features of the regulatory, legal, and organizational framework for engaging citizens in the budget process at the level of local self-government bodies.
E. Gorbunova
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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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