Can Local African Communities be Empowered through Participatory Budgeting?

Experience of participatory budgeting in municipalities of Russian regions is reviewed in the paper. Forms of participation of the population in decision-making, as well as in the selection, realization and co-financing of public projects have been investigated. The analysis of the practices made it possible to identify the features and prospects of the Russian model of initiative budgeting.

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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN MODERN RUSSIA: THE MECHANISM OF FORMATION OF COMMISSIONS, ANY COSTS AND OBVIOUS BENEFITS

THE CASPIAN REGION Politics Economics Culture ◽

10.21672/1818-510x-2020-62-1-038-042 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 38-42

Author(s):

VICTOR I. LYSOV ◽

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OLGA S. RYBKINA ◽

ARTEM A. FOMENKOV ◽

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Keyword(s):

Participatory Budgeting ◽

Mechanism Of Formation

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Participatory Budgeting, Fiscal Transparency, and Fiscal Outcomes: Experiences at the Korean Local Governments

Korean Public Administration Quarterly ◽

10.21888/kpaq.2020.12.32.4.667 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 667-699

Author(s):

Ik-Hwan Kweon ◽

Jung-Bu Kim

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Participatory Budgeting ◽

Fiscal Transparency ◽

Fiscal Outcomes

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Gangwon Province Participatory Budgeting System Vitalization Strategies

Journal of Social Science ◽

10.22418/jss.2019.12.58.2.57 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 57-99

Author(s):

O-Young Kwon ◽

B. Shine Cho ◽

YoungRok Kim

Keyword(s):

Participatory Budgeting

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Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea

International Review of Administrative Sciences ◽

10.1177/0020852321991208 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002085232199120

Author(s):

Sun-Moon Jung

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Fiscal Sustainability ◽

Efficiency Improvement ◽

Participatory Budgeting ◽

Strong Argument ◽

Municipal Governments ◽

Administrative Efficiency ◽

Participatory Institutions ◽

Improvement Effect ◽

Government Efficiency

The current study evaluates the role of a democratic institution—participatory budgeting—in improving government efficiency. Participatory institutions aim to enhance governance, information sharing, and the responsiveness of political agents to citizens, leading to fiscal accountability and efficiency. Drawing from a database of 221 municipal governments in South Korea around a mandatory participatory budgeting adoption period, we find that participatory budgeting adoptions are followed by improvement in multiple dimensions of government efficiency. In particular, municipal governments experience statistically significant improvements in their fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. In additional analysis, we find that the efficiency improvements are more pronounced in the presence of strong mayoral leadership. Overall findings suggest that participatory budgeting programs contribute to fiscal health and administrative efficiency, above and beyond their role in securing fiscal democracy. Points for practitioners The current study suggests that participatory budget systems not only contribute to quality in democracy (as prior studies have found), but also improve fiscal efficiency and accountability by serving as a bottom-up governance mechanism. We document that introductions of participatory budgeting programs are followed by statistically significant improvements in fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. The results also indicate that the efficiency-improvement effect differs across municipalities, depending on their political environments. Overall, this study provides a strong argument for the participatory budgeting system by empirically supporting its efficiency-improvement effect.

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Differentiating Participation: Identifying and Defining Civic Capacities Used by Latino Immigrants in Participatory Budgeting

City and Community ◽

10.1177/1535684121993473 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153568412199347

Author(s):

José W. Meléndez ◽

Maria Martinez-Cosio

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Participatory Planning ◽

Immigrant Community ◽

Participatory Budgeting ◽

Civic Discourse ◽

Spanish Speaking ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Civic Skills ◽

Budgeting Process

Participatory planning has faced challenges engaging predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants beyond the bottom rungs of Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. Participating at any level of the ladder requires individual civic skills, or capacities, that are integral to participatory processes. However, the specific skills necessary for collective action are less certain, due in part to a lack of clear definitions and a lack of clarity about how these capacities work in practice. Drawing on two years of data from a participatory budgeting process in an immigrant community in Chicago, Illinois, the authors identify key civic capacities that Spanish-speaking immigrants activated while engaging in civic discourse, and they explore the role these capacities played in moving ideas toward collective decision making. The authors present an organizational schema that aligns the study’s findings of 17 unique civic capacities with capacities identified in the literature as helping participants engage more meaningfully in decision-making processes.

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