Design of the participatory budget: how to turn citizens into process protagonists

Mattei, Giorgia; Santolamazza, Valentina; Grandis, Fabio Giulio

doi:10.1108/ijpsm-02-2021-0045

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“…In this paper, we approach the sustainability of PB from the public administration viewpoint and see PB as a part of building institutional, collaborative innovation capacity to perform and produce valuable outcomes for citizens. We focus on PB as organizational capabilities and institutional arrangements and thus answer the call for more research raised in prior literature (Bartocci et al, 2022;Mattei et al, 2022). In addition, Bland (2017) highlights the sustainability progress in which knowledge and skills have been transferred to allow it to continue.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Despite the growing research interest, the perspective on the institutionalization of PB is still relatively rarely studied (Bartocci et al, 2022;Mattei et al, 2022). Many of the prior studies on PB tend to focus on the design or results of PB (Ebdon and Franklin, 2006;Bartocci et al, 2019;van der Does, 2022).…”

Section: The Institutionalization Of Citizen Participation Initiative...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We focus on PB as organizational capabilities and institutional arrangements and thus answer the call for more research raised in prior literature (Bartocci et al. , 2022; Mattei et al. , 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Premises for sustainability – participatory budgeting as a way to construct collaborative innovation capacity in local government

Pulkkinen

Sinervo

Kurkela

2023

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PurposeIn this paper, the authors focus on participatory budgeting (PB) as an organizational issue in local government. The aim of this study is to analyze the premises of PB becoming institutionalized in local governance by scrutinizing the factors that enable or disable PB as a collaborative innovation process, and that in turn build innovative capacity. The authors study how the collaborative innovation process constructs the innovation capacity of local government and further how this enables PB to institutionalize in local government. With this study, the authors deepen the understanding of PB as a collaborative innovation process that may encounter obstacles and hindrances, but also enablers and drivers for creating and transforming sustainable collaborative practices in local government.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors present a case study from one Finnish local government, the city of Lahti. The authors employ multifaced empirical data collected from the city of Lahti in two PB rounds between 2019 and 2022. Data include surveys for citizens and employees and municipal councilors and altogether 24 interviews with employees and councilors. The authors also gathered data by observing the PB process in Lahti, taking parts in workshops and meetings between 2019 and 2022. Municipal documents were likewise used as data in this study.FindingsThe institutionalization of PB in a local government organization requires organizational innovation capacity, not only individuals who are keen, motived and committed to work on PB. However, the Lahti case shows that successful PB results from the citizens' viewpoint can on one hand be reached while simultaneously the sustainability of PB needs more organizational commitment and support that materializes into managerial activities. The authors found that adequate resourcing is a key question in the institutionalization of PB.Originality/valueIn the present study, the authors approach the often-neglected topic of PB from the professional viewpoint in public administration. The originality of the empirical setting is the multifaced data collection during the first two rounds of PB in Lahti. It is highly relevant to analyze PB in its early stages as the organizational difficulties and resistance are at the time at their highest. This study offers a unique perspective on to the initialization of a novel participatory method in a city where no such efforts on this scale have been implemented before.

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Kurkela

2023

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“…Among the existing and different participatory tools, such as public debate, collaboration agreements, citizen sensing, petitions and referendums, participatory budget is of particular interest. Specifically, participatory budgeting (PB) has been an innovation in the budgeting processes since this instrument allows the citizenry to participate in resource allocation actively (Papadopulos & Warin, 2007;Bartocci, Grossi & Mauro, 2019;Mattei, Santolamazza & Grandis, 2022). Even if several PB formats could be set up (Sintomer e al., 2013), it usually allows identifying -ex-ante -the population's needs and proposals helpful in implementing citizens-responsive policies (Allegretti, 2010).…”

Section: Participatory Budgeting and Digitalizationmentioning

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Fostering Participation in Gender Budgeting: A proposal for an online system to enhance citizens' engagement in gender-responsive budgeting

Mattei

Santolamazza

Elia

2022

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A controversial issue in the public management literature is the role attributed to women. Analyzing the existing literature, few works have been written about how the presence of women is valued in the public sector. From this analysis, several discriminatory elements are still present, and gender equality seems to be far away. However, this objective must continue to be pursued, also considering the relevance given to the gender equality issue by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to implement political, economic and societal legislation, programs and policies to minimize the differences between men and women. In this perspective, Gender Budgeting (GB) could be an interesting field of research. It consists of a systematic review about how women benefit from public sector expenditures, an adjustment of budgets to ensure equality of access to public sector expenditures, enhancing productive capacity and meeting social needs. However, GB could be adopted differently and could produce several results. In particular, the implementation of GB as a participatory tool is still nowadays a challenge and could be fascinating to analyze, considering the various benefits that a participatory approach could imply. One of the main reasons for the lack of direct citizens involvement in GB is that it was initially developed from a macro-perspective at the national budget. On the other hand, other participatory tools, such as the participatory budget, originate at the local level. Therefore, examining the existing literature and focusing on two different processes, but with some overlapping characteristics elements, namely participatory budgeting and gender budgeting, the present research aims to create a participatory GB framework, investigating the insertion of a participatory perspective in the process, specifically women’s engagement, not neglecting the relevance of digitalization to this end.

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“…In addition, scholars have mainly focused on the design and results of PB (e.g. Patsias et al, 2013;Jung, 2022;Mattei et al, 2022;Manes-Rossi et al, 2023), and less is known about its institutional settings (Bartocci et al, 2019). It is our understanding that PB has not yet been adequately studied in the context of sustainability, and there is a need to scrutinize PB as a form of sustainable governance (cf.…”

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Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Sinervo,

Bartocci,

Lehtonen

et al. 2024

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PurposeSustainability is a pressing challenge of governance and public financial management. One key element of sustainable governance is the role of citizens. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a participatory tool with which citizens can influence public administration. PB is a democratic process that grants people real power over real money and it has spread around the world. This special issue explores the role of PB in the context of sustainable governance. In this editorial, the authors aim to approach PB as a form of sustainable governance.Design/methodology/approachIn this editorial, the authors collaborate in the analysis of how PB is implicated in the public management of complex social, economic and ecological issues. The authors identify key dimensions of internal and external sustainability based on prior research. The authors approach these dimensions as an internal–external nexus of sustainable governance in which organizational and financial sustainability are the internal dimensions and socio-political and environmental sustainability are the external dimensions.FindingsEven though PB can be seen as one tool for citizen participation, it has the potential to foster sustainability in multiple ways. PB, as a form of sustainable governance, requires a financially and administratively sustainable organizational process that results in the institutionalization of PB. It also includes thorough consideration of socio-political and environmental sustainability impacts of PB.Originality/valueAcademics are actively studying PB from various perspectives. However, most of this work has approached PB from the viewpoints of design and results of PB, and less is known about its institutional settings. PB has not yet been adequately studied in the context of sustainability, and there is a need to scrutinize PB as a form of sustainable governance.

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Design of the participatory budget: how to turn citizens into process protagonists

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

Premises for sustainability – participatory budgeting as a way to construct collaborative innovation capacity in local government

Premises for sustainability – participatory budgeting as a way to construct collaborative innovation capacity in local government

Fostering Participation in Gender Budgeting: A proposal for an online system to enhance citizens' engagement in gender-responsive budgeting

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

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