Participatory Budgeting in Serbia

Participatory Budgeting as a Democratic and Managerial Innovation: Recent Trends and Avenues for Further Research5

“…The adoption of experiments related to the impact assessment and adoption of PB and the overcoming of the obstacles generated by some actors in the collaborative governance process and in citizen participation are issues which practitioners should invest more in to increase diffusion and output of PB as a tool. This conclusion is also confirmed by Milosavljević et al (2023), who pointed out that the research focused on PB had already reached the point of saturation, and it would require further specialisation, which will make PB an advanced tool for direct democracy implementation.…”

Bibliometric Review of Participatory Budgeting: Current Status and Future Research Agenda

“…However, a number of critics have also been addressed within this cohort, particularly the papers discussing As displayed in Figure 6, studies on PB usually cover the field of politics, and issues such as the development of democratic institutions and the redefined role of government (Milosavljević et al 2020), and governmental efficiency (Jung 2021). However, a number of critics have also been addressed within this cohort, particularly the papers discussing the unsuccessful "export" of this innovation via large global institutions (Milosavljević et al 2021;Murray Svidro ňová et al 2023a).…”

Determinants of the success of participatory budgets in Poland

“…It is an action of democratic innovation that promotes social empowerment and citizens' education. It increases equality and innovation, while enabling transparency of the path that begins with an idea/proposal and progresses to an implemented project through the cooperation among the citizens and the authorities [Milosavljević et al, 2023]. Europe is the first continent to account for about 40% of all applications worldwide, and Poland covers most of them [Dias et al, 2021].…”