On deciding how to decide: Designing participatory budget processes

J. Gomez, D. Rios Insua, J.M. Lavin and C. Alfaro

European Journal of Operational Research, 2013, vol. 229, issue 3, 743-750

Abstract: Participatory budgets are becoming increasingly popular in many municipalities all around the world. The underlying idea is to allow citizens to participate in the allocation of a municipal budget. Many advantages have been suggested for such experiences, including legitimization and more informed and transparent decisions. There are many conceivable variants of such processes. However, in most cases both its design and implementation are carried out in an informal way. In this paper we propose a methodology to design a participatory budget process based on a multicriteria decision making model.

Keywords: Group decision support; Public budgeting; Participatory budgeting; Participation; Multicriteria decision making; Multiattribute value function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.035

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