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- Demediuk, Peter, et al.
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Local Government as a Democracy Actor or a Service Delivery Actor : The Supporting Roles for E-Governance Initiatives
- 2014
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Ingår i: E-Governance and Social Inclusion: Concepts and Cases. - : IGI-Globel. - 9781466661066 - 9781466661073 ; , s. 127-147
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local governance occurs where a local government gives citizens a say in things that really matter to them, and e-governance initiatives provide electronic means to enable citizens to participate in this shared governing of the community. The clearer a local government is about the nature and degree to which it needs to act as a democracy actor (better citizens and better government) and/or a service delivery actor (better decision making), the greater the prospect that it can choose appropriate electronic means through an e-governance approach to meet those ends. In order to guide an e-governance practice and inform further research, this chapter: provides models that articulate the elements that constitute better decision making, better citizens, and better government, and presents examples from five local govern - ments of how electronic means can satisfy particular ends.
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- Demediuk, Peter, et al.
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We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
- 2011
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. ; 7:1, s. 179-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Citizen participation in local government budgeting is an important emerging public management reform movement. Budgets are the 'bottom-line' of government policy and action, and participatory budgeting programs bring local communities into the decision-making process around formal resource allocation plans, and so enable citizens to have a direct say in service and infrastructure expenditure. This study of the first participatory budget in any Swedish local government highlights the potential for such community engagement initiatives to contribute to social, economic and environmental sustainability. These contributions flow directly to sustainability through better contemporary ideas and decisions, or to future policy and action via enhanced organisational capabilities and community capacity. But the case also warns of the dangers when the good intentions and substantial resources which are thrown at a project for citizen participation collide with a contrary organizational culture, poorly matched political and managerial frameworks, and a lack of influential 'receivers' and 'commissioners'.
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