Some Reflection on Participatory Budgeting in China: Minhang District Case Study

2015 ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Budgeting

scholarly journals Participatory Budgeting in the Major Cities in Poland – Case Study of 2018 Editions

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-277
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Madej
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Organisation

AbstractThe paper refers to the social innovation of participatory budgeting which has become a very popular tool for stimulating citizen participation at the local level in Poland. It focuses on the major cities, defined as capitals of the voivodeships or regions. Based on the data concerning 2018 participatory budgeting editions in the eighteen cities, it describes the funding, organisation of the process, forms of voting and voter participation as well as the nature of projects selected and implemented. According to the amended Act on the Local Self-Government, organisation of participatory budgeting will only be obligatory for Polish cities from 2019. Despite that fact, it has already become quite popular and broadly applied in local communities. However, citizens’ participation and involvement in the process seems quite low, suggesting a need for experience sharing and improvement of the initiative. Also, project selection reflects the influence of various social groups within urban communities, rather than assisting groups which are at risk of marginalisation.

scholarly journals Participatory budgeting – case study of the city of Szczecin

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Jakub Baranowski
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Participatory Budgeting: Case Study of Possible Causes of Failures

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Soukop ◽  
Pavel Šaradín ◽  
Markéta Zapletalová
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Theory Testing ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Domino Effect ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Know How

Participatory budgeting is perhaps the most widespread and popular form of democratic innovation (DI). It is often identified as an appropriate tool to deepen the democracy at the local level. The text shows that this is not always the case, as some elected officials may use it as a innovation “façade” or its design suffers from various forms of imperfections leading to its failure to be implemented. The authors focus on the practice of participatory budgeting and its failures in the Czech Republic. Through the empirical testing of causal mechanism, the article reveals the main causes of that failure, in the case of its implementation in Prague 7 borough. The mechanism presented is based on the theory-testing minimal process-tracing design in which part of the findings of the previous research have been tested. It also attempts to support empirically only the significant steps of the mechanism between cause and outcome. In particular, the three scope conditions are tested: political support, sufficient funding for participatory budgeting and the existence of a source of know-how. Authors conclude that in the selected case, there was a domino effect of failure, with successive failures in all observed conditions, which ultimately led to a complete brake of causal mechanism and failure of participatory budgeting tool.

scholarly journals Institutional Analysis Model for Examining Direct Democracy Phenomena: a Case Study of Participatory Budgeting

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (341) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Zofia Łapniewska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Ancient Athens ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Approaches

Direct democracy, the tradition of which dates back to ancient Athens, is now widely practised in many countries around the world. In this paper, a case study of participatory budgeting is given as an illustration of how residents can decide directly about their common resources. The paper is theoretical in nature. It aims to present a model of institutional analysis of direct democracy phenomena based on the example of participatory budgets analysis, taking into account variables related to two novel approaches: Varieties of Capitalism and intersectionality. This model can be used for diagnosing aspects of local democracy, comparative studies of participatory budgeting processes taking place in various countries around the world, as well as for further research into other processes of direct democracy, thus contributing to the development of knowledge in this field and to social sciences in general.

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