scholarly journals Participatory Budget as One of the Instruments of the Concept of Public Governance on the Example of the City of Lublin

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Jan Braun ◽  
Patrycja Marzec-Braun
Keyword(s):  
Public Governance ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Green(er) Cities and Their Citizens: Insights from the Participatory Budget of Lisbon

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8243
Author(s):  
Roberto Falanga ◽  
Jessica Verheij ◽  
Olivia Bina
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
City Council ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The City

There is rising scholarly and political interest in participatory budgets and their potential to advance urban sustainability. This article aims to contribute to this field of study through the specific lens of the city of Lisbon’s experience as an internationally acknowledged leader in participatory budgeting. To this end, the article critically examines the lessons and potential contribution of the Lisbon Participatory Budget through a multimethod approach. Emerging trends and variations of citizen proposals, projects, votes, and public funding are analysed in tandem with emerging key topics that show links and trade-offs between locally embedded participation and the international discourse on urban sustainability. Our analysis reveals three interconnected findings: first, the achievements of the Lisbon Participatory Budget show the potential to counteract the dominant engineered approach to urban sustainability; second, trends and variations of the achievements depend on both citizens’ voice and the significant influence of the city council through policymaking; and, third, the shift towards a thematic Green Participatory Budget in 2020 was not driven by consolidated social and political awareness on the achievements, suggesting that more could be achieved through the 2021 urban sustainability oriented Participatory Budget. We conclude recommending that this kind of analysis should be systematically carried out and disseminated within city council departments, promoting much needed internal awareness of PBs’ potential as drivers of urban sustainability. We also identify further research needed into the sustainability potential of green PBs.

scholarly journals WROCŁAWSKI BUDŻET OBYWATELSKI JAKO NARZĘDZIE DO WZMACNIANIA KAPITAŁU NATURALNEGO I ODPORNOŚCI MIASTA NA ZMIANY KLIMATU W LATACH 2016-2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Marta Joanna Jamontt ◽  
Karol Kociszewski ◽  
Johannes Platje
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The City

Participatory budgets are a popular form of co-decision of residents about public space and quality of life in the city. Projects submitted to participatory budgets respond to needs such as recreation, health, communication and safety. This article evaluates the projects from 2016-2018 of the Wroclaw Participatory Budget in terms of aspects related to the wider issue of natural capital and climate change. The results obtained indicate that despite increasing financial outlays on projects that can contribute to strengthening environmental and climate aspects, the share of investments directly targeted at their implementation is relatively small. A total of 201 projects were analyzed, of which 12% directly and 18% indirectly referred to issues related to natural capital and/or climate change.

scholarly journals Too many evenings. Learning Democracy from a Participatory Budget Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Emilio Lucio-Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The City

In this article, I reflect on experiences linking adult education to citizenship and participation. I consider citizenship to be connected to social justice and social inclusion. I suggest that a key element in citizenship is participating in public issues which concern life in communities in order to build an egalitarian relationship among people. In this article, I connect participation to a singular experience: the Participatory Budget Experiment in the city of Seville from 2003 to 2007. I explore specific experiences within adult education through participatory research and the elaboration of teaching materials addressed to this end. Finally, I reflect on the consequences of these experiences for an emancipatory adult education that aims to teach and learn democracy.

PARTYCYPACY BUDGET AS A CROSSING OF CIVIL ACTIVITY: POLISH MODEL ON THE EXAMPLE OF POZNAŃ

2018 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
N. R. Holubiak
Keyword(s):  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Polish Experience ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
Control Application ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Characteristics

The author sets the task to study the impact of new mechanisms of direct democracy (participatory budget) on attracting and activating the population to local public policy. The organization of participatory budgeting is a manifestation of direct democracy that allows citizens to express their approval or disapproval of the actions taken by local authorities. This article presents the Polish experience of implementing a public budget on the example of the city of Poznan, which was one of the first cities in Poland to introduce a civic budget in 2012. It should be added that there is no one model of the participatory budget in Poland. Each municipality and city introduce its own rules, often guided by existing examples, often don’t conducting social consultations and don’t working out the principles of the civic budget together with the residents. The normative, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the civic budgets of Poznan (number of voters and number of submitted projects, motivation for participation in the voting, public control, application of electronic platforms) are analyzed. In the addition, the advantages and disadvantages of the process of participatory budget are summed up, the activation of citizens is especially noted at the voting stage and low awareness of intermediate stages of the civil budget.

scholarly journals Działania prawne składające się na budowanie wizerunku Białegostoku z marką Esperanto

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
Wiktoria Danilewicz-Prokorym ◽  
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Legal Character ◽  
The City ◽  
Executive Body

The article presents the legal activities of the city of Bialystok related to building its image using the brand Esperanto over the past years. The text deals with the complicated side of building the image of the city which is legal actions using the asset of the city which the case of Bialystok is the brand Esperanto. These actions were taken both by the executive body of the municipality – the Mayor – and the legislative body – the City Council. The following activities were discussed: the activity of the Bialystok City Council, the activity connected with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ludwik Zamenhof’s death, the organisation of the Esperanto Congress in 2009 and the significance of the so-called participatory budget for the discussed issue. In the analysis of the topic, only those activities undertaken in Bialystok and related to Ludwik Zamenhof, his successors and the Esperanto language were chosen, which are not only based on but have their source in legal acts and are of direct or indirect legal character. The article also briefly discusses the aspect of life history of Ludwik Krzysztof Zaleski Zamenhof in connection with granting him the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Bialystok. The article discusses the legal activities of the city of Bialystok connected with building its image with the use of the Esperanto brand in the perspective of the last years, touching upon an interesting matter which is the promotion of the Municipality on the basis of the only universal language in the world. The legal actions described in the article reflect the perspective of young Ludwik Zamenhoff, which led to the creation of Esperanto language. The text combines two matters, the creation of a supranational language, with legal actions that are used to promote the small homeland of its creator.

scholarly journals Participatory Budget – An Effective Tool for Social Participation and Building Local Identity. A Case Study of the City of Lodz

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 129-151
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ślebocka ◽  
Artur Kilanowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
City Management ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
The City

The aim of the article: The main aim of the article is to present the essence and significance the institution of civic budget as a tool not only allowing citizens to actively participate in the process of deciding about the directions of spending public funds, but also a tool to determine the directions of social expectations, the essence and importance of social participation. Hypothesis: The hypothesis accepted in the study stipulates that the growing popularity of the civic budget makes it an effective tool for social participation. Methodology: The study was based on a literature review, legal acts, information on the functioning of the civic budget in Lodz as well as a questionnaire conducted among the city residents. Results of the research: The civic budget in Lodz has been functioning for eight years, and during this time it has been constantly contributing to the idea of citizen involvement in the decision-making process. Although the budget procedure itself is undergoing numerous corrections and transformations, as the ongoing political, social and macroeconomic changes must be taken into account, it is still a basic tool enabling active participation and involvement of citizens. The matters it concerns are important to the community, and the civic budget offers an opportunity to express their opinions on key issues. The conducted survey indicates that Lodz is a positive example of using the participatory budget mechanism in the city management process. The sustained high (on a Polish scale) turnout confirms the inhabitants’ interest and willingness to change the public space, thus positively influencing the building of a sense of local community.

scholarly journals Den samskabende kirke?

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Lars Buch Viftrup
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Priesthood Of All Believers ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Notion ◽  
The City ◽  
Folk Church ◽  
The Church

Co-production has become an important notion within public governance, particularly in municipalities. The Danish Folk Church has a long history of working together with the municipalities and is an institution with many civil resources. Through an empirical study involving the municipality, the church and citizens of Aarhus, this article discusses the implications of co-production for the church and its theology. St. Augustine’s concepts of the “City of God”, Luther’s concept of the “priesthood of all believers” and “vocation” and Luhmann’s concept of faith as dealing with “paradox” offer an analytical frame for understanding how the church co-produces the city. The “priesthood of all believers” underlines the “bottom up” character of the congregation and thereby its civil character, while the “City of God” as an ambivalent and paradoxical term for salvation holds together the tensions involved in co-production.

When dreams come true – urban land use and management trends desired by residents and participatory budgeting – a case study in Toruń

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Środa-Murawska ◽  
Leszek S. Dąbrowski ◽  
Paweł Smoliński
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Participatory Budget ◽  
Land Use And Management ◽  
The City

Abstract Social participation allows public authorities to learn about communities’ views and thus to jointly work out satisfying solutions. The pre-1989 law in Poland generally prevented the possibility of citizens taking part in the making of decisions about the use of public areas. Over the following years participatory decision-making was adopted, which evolved and expanded as new tools were introduced which encourage citizen involvement. The municipality of Toruń adopted a participatory approach to budgeting in 2014 so that the city’s residents could influence the use of public land in their neighbourhoods according to their needs. The total amount of funding spent on participatory budgets between 2014 and 2017 exceeded PLN 26 million. The aim of the study is to prepare a typology of desired changes in the city of Toruń and to identify the level of social participation on the basis of projects nominated for financing from the participatory budget. To this end, the types of projects and the turnout of the residents who voted were analysed by place of residence. The study showed that both the number of nominated projects and the number of voters increased in the years covered by the survey, thus pointing to the success of participatory budgeting, a form of schooling in local democracy, in Toruń.

scholarly journals City Conflicts in Modern Russia: A New Issue in the Old Context

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-155
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Glukhova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Community ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
The City

The author notes that the political potential of sub-state formations is growing. It means that regions and cities became more powerful in public governance in the modern world. Locals become political agents on the international level. I.e. the practice of the involvement of citizens in the management process became wider (grassroots technology, where their knowledge and competencies are enough to solve many pressing problems). At the same time, in emerging conflicts, the city authorities in the West are strictly guided by the norms of the current legislation and ideas about the public good. In Russian public policy, on the contrary, there is a lack of normal communication between the government and public groups, a respectful dialogue, and a joint search for solutions to troubling problems. The federal and city authorities, as a rule, are not interested in increasing the social activity of Russians, which does not contribute in solving conflicts. This strategy led, on the contrary, to new activism. Conflict cases in the urban community are dominated by endogenous factors, mainly based on communication defects of the urban management system. The author concludes that the key factors of urban conflict are related to the activities of local authorities, which, due to objective reasons (limited resources) and subjective reasons (inattention to the interests of citizens), do not fulfill their functions of stabilizing the socio-political area of the urban community . Positive consequences of urban conflicts, including good communication between contractors; detente of social tension in the urban environment; development of rules and norms of interaction in a conflict situation ("rules of the game") are manifested to a much lesser extent. This creates the base for the future social and political divisions in the city. External, exogenous influences and restrictions are primarily determined by the nature resources and "the main line" of the regional policy according to the Federation. The main conflict factors are the sharp gap in the standard of living of residents of the capital and the regions, as well as the de facto colonial policy of the Center promoting "Varangians" from Moscow to the posts of regional governors and mayors, while completely ignoring the interests of local establishment and public opinion.

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