Municipal Participatory Budgeting Designs in the V4 Countries

S. de Vries Michiel and Spacek David
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S. de Vries Michiel: Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Spacek David: Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 210-231

Abstract: Research on PB in CEE has been rather fragmented and has focused on the diffusion of PB, and sometimes on determinative factors inside the countries. Some comparative studies exist but address primarily initial steps of PB. This paper presents the outcomes of a research that focused on the design of participatory budgeting in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The main method is a secondary comparative analysis of existing literature and information on the subject. The findings are based on recently published country studies and other available information related to the national context in the countries. We use the country studies as input for a multi‐case study analysis (Zongozzi & Wessels, 2016) to make comparisons and, if possible, generalize some of the findings, but also to point out specifics determined by the context in which PB is being implemented and practiced. As the subsidiary method we used expert evaluation. To obtain extra information we consulted experts in all selected countries during July and August 2022. Analyzing PB processes in these countries showed similar features and that, on the whole, PB processes still belong to the group o the Porto Alegre model adapted for Europe as concluded in the literature published almost a decade ago. But this is only valid at a more abstract level of PB designs. Looking at PB processes in practice, it is seen in the V4 region that the actual practices vary over municipalities, even within one and the same country.

Keywords: participatory budgeting; Visegrad Four countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2023-0009

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