A Strategy for a Sustainable Local Government: Are Participatory Governments More Efficient, Effective, and Equitable in the Budget Process?

Youngmin Oh, Seong-ho Jeong and Heontae Shin
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Youngmin Oh: Department of Public Administration, Dongguk University, Seoul 10326, Korea
Seong-ho Jeong: Korea Public Finance Information Service, Seoul 04637, Korea
Heontae Shin: Korea Institute of Public Finance, Sejong 30147, Korea

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-16

Abstract: Citizen participation in budget processes is an attractive governance strategy for creating sustainable local finance. In participatory governance, citizens are engaged in the governmental policy decision-making process for sustainable communities. Despite the importance of a participatory government, its instrumental benefits are uncertain and remain unexamined at the local level. No one has offered any extensive evidence based on large- N data to ascertain such benefits. This article fills this gap in the literature by testing the impacts of participatory budgeting on local financial outcomes. The results show that participatory governments are financially more effective and equitable without sacrificing efficiency. Advancing a more institutional perspective, this article explains the identified effects of participation mechanisms in the budget process on different local financial outcomes.

Keywords: participation; sustainability; institutions; efficiency; effectiveness; equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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