Increasing citizen participation in e-participatory budgeting processes

Mærøe, Anders Røsten; Norta, Alex; Tsap, Valentyna; Pappel, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/19331681.2020.1821421

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Governments/politicians/officers set the agenda in both liberal and deliberative levels. However, "direct e-democracy" is the highest level that citizens set the agenda (Maerøe et al, 2021;Päivärinta & Saebø, 2006), which is beyond the scope of the current study.…”

Section: The Participation In E-democracymentioning

confidence: 95%

Predictors of e-democracy applicability in Turkish K-12 schools

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Today, the COVID-19 pandemic has paved the way for a more democratic climate in K-12 schools. Administrators and teachers have had to seek out new ways through which to interact. This raises two questions; “What about the quality of interaction and participation in decision-making?” and “Which factors affect the level of participation in decision-making?” The aim of the current research is to determine the factors that predict the applicability level of e-democracy (i.e., “reporting and declaring opinions” and “decision-making”) in K-12 schools. An associational research design was used in order to attain the main goal of the study, with Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) technique used to analyze the factors predicting the applicability level of e-democracy. Data were collected from a total of 765 inservice K-12 teachers through a questionnaire developed by the researchers. DFA results showed “motivation to participate,” “the level of participatory democracy in the country,” and higher levels of the “use of Twitter” as the significant determinants of different levels of e-democracy application. Moreover, the results also indicated that those participants with the belief of e-democracy’s applicability at the decision-making level found the “motivation level of stakeholders” to be the most critical. Their level of Twitter use was higher. They also believed that the level of participatory democracy in the country was at a higher level. Another result of the DFA pointed to “security and ethical issues,” and lower levels of the “use of Twitter” as factors differentiating the group believing that e-democracy can be applicable with reporting and the declaration of opinions to administrators from the other groups. The discussions highlighted the critical role of participation level in e-democracy within K-12 schools.

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Section: The Participation In E-democracymentioning

confidence: 95%

Predictors of e-democracy applicability in Turkish K-12 schools

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“…Although one can find a few small-scale comparisons whose authors dealt mainly with institutional settings (Džinić, Murray Svidroňová, Markowska-Bzducha, 2016;Fölscher, 2007;Kersting et al 2016;Mączka et al 2021;Radzik-Maruszak, Bátorová, 2015;Lehtonen, 2021), numerous country studies (Brabec, 2019;Džinić, 2018;Garaj, Bardovič, 2020;Gondášová, Svidroňová, 2016;Kempa, Kozłowski, 2020;Kukučková, Bakoš, 2019;Milosavljević et al 2020;Minárik, 2020;Sześciło, 2015) and case studies (Balážová, 2021a;Bardovič, 2021;Bednarska-Olejniczak, Olejniczak, 2016;Boc, 2019;Hrabinová, 2020;Kociuba, Rabczewska, 2019;Krenjova, Reinsalu, 2013;Maerøe et al 2021;Polko, 2015;Švaljek, Rašić Bakarić, Sumpor, 2019;Tomášková, Buzková, 2020;Zapletalová, Soukop, Šaradín, 2020) have prevailed. It is also possible to find studies whose authors evaluated the legal conditions of individual CEE countries from the perspective of the adoption or continued use of PB (Birskyte, 2013;Šramel, 2018;Zawadzka-Pąk, Tomášková, 2019).…”

Section: The Diffusion Of Participatory Budgeting In Central and Eastern Europementioning

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Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Klimovský

Junjan

Nemec

2021

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This is a summary article of the SJPS thematic issue on participatory budgeting in the Central and Eastern European region. Its authors provide an overview of the diffusion of participatory budgeting, and they classify relevant countries in terms of the pace of this diffusion into four different groups: frontrunners, early majority, later majority, and lagging adopters. In addition, they uncover various diffusion mechanisms that have been used. Since the research articles included in this thematic issue unpack various factors that influence the diffusion of the innovative practice of participatory budgeting in the specific settings of Central and Eastern Europe, the main goal of this article is to sum up their crucial findings and formulate several conclusions, including a few avenues for further research. A clear majority of countries in the region have already collected a relevant amount of experience with the adoption and further use of participatory budgeting. An analysis of the individual experiences reveals that the position and characteristics of mayors, organizational resources, and available capacities, as well as the quality of public trust, are likely to be important factors that determine the adoption and use of participatory budgeting in the region.

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“…ICT technologies and digitalization are often advocated as a panacea to citizen sourcing and active participation (Schmidthuber, Hilgers, 2017). In some cases, e-participation indeed provides a solution for strengthening e-democracy on the local government level (Maerøe et al, 2020). From a grand scheme of things, municipalities applying the e-Participatory Budgeting programs hold fewer face-to-face meetings in their participatory budgeting programs.…”

Section: The Reasons For the Low Participation Of Citizens In The Forms Of Participatory Financial Decision-makingmentioning

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Participation of Citizens in Public Financial Decision-Making in Serbia

Šabović

Milosavljević

Benkovic

2021

SJPS

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Participation in the local public finance decision-making process in Serbia is not a new concept as it was implemented even during the ‘Titoistic’ period. However, direct participation is still in an infant phase altogether with the low interest of citizens in participating in local financial decision-making procedures. The aim of this paper is to explain the main types of civic participation in the local financial decision-making process (i.e., referendum voting on self-imposed contribution, participatory budgeting, and civic crowdfunding) and to focus on the main factors that lead to a low participation of citizens in such processes. Additionally, the article analyses how these factors affect general mistrust in politics and society. For this purpose, a total of N=421 citizens were interviewed. Using the principal component analysis, the following three main components for low participation were defined: 1) lack of knowledge, 2) lack of interest, and 3) lack of political will. Thereafter, using the regression analysis, the study confirmed that the first two components are statistically significant predictors for mistrust in politics and society.

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Increasing citizen participation in e-participatory budgeting processes

Cited by 27 publications

References 34 publications

Predictors of e-democracy applicability in Turkish K-12 schools

Predictors of e-democracy applicability in Turkish K-12 schools

Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Participation of Citizens in Public Financial Decision-Making in Serbia

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