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- Demediuk, Peter, et al.
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Improving Youth Engagement by Local Governments : A Swedish Case Study
- 2014
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Community Diversity. - : Common Ground Publishing LLC. - 2327-0004. ; 13:3, s. 25-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a pressing need for governments—especially local governments—to develop and implement effective youth engagement initiatives which can: remediate a growing disconnection of young people from other parts of society, government, and conventional representative democracy; build skills, knowledge, networks, and relationships; support cultural diversity, tolerance, and integration; and provide decisions which are relevant to needs and wants of young people. Despite the increasing levels of rhetoric and action and much speculation about potential costs and benefits of youth engagement by local government, there are substantial gaps in the knowledge about the nature and effect of initiatives in practice. As a reaction to these gaps on our knowledge, this paper presents a case study that interrogates the context, the ends (objectives and outcomes), and the means (structures and processes) of innovative youth engagement initiatives at a Swedish local governments that faces large challenges in economic and community diversity terms. Such an exploration of a relatively new phenomenon can assist in informing practice and further research. The study identifies and describes the context, means and ends of a range of innovative and bold youth engagement projects, and the findings stress the need for local governments to be very clear and explicit when designing and implementing youth engagement, as to how much its role is as a “democracy actor”—seeking better government and better communities—and how much encapsulates being a “service delivery” actor—aiming at better decisions about policies, programs and services.
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- Demediuk, Peter, et al.
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Performance management of guided tours : matching organizational ends and means with participant expectations and experiences
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The case studies illustrate how different ends (objectives and outcomes) can emanate from a particular means (the tour of ‘the place’) The findings suggest that operators often heavily emphasise the practice and communication of means without the same clarity and articulation in ends – and this compromises the intrinsic and economic value of the ventures from the perspective of both the tour company and the tourist. Experiences such as physical intensities, interacting in a group, learning about self or facts (techniques, nature, folklore etc) provide dynamic intensities where individuals affect other bodies (participants and places) and are affected by other bodies. Whilst these tours differ in their means, they are all designed to give the ‘visitor’ a sense of place and purpose. But the way each tour is constructed both highlights and hides different characteristics and images of the place in question - and hence shapes the experiences and insights to be gained. Vivid distinctions between these long and active guided tours are observed – each given an emblematic metaphor at some stage by the various tour guides that highlights the pervading mood and sense of purpose.
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- Adolfsson, Petra, et al.
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Medborgarbudget : erfarenheter från tre svenska pilotkommuner
- 2012
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna rapport beskrivs och diskuteras erfarenheterna av att arbeta med medborgarbudget i tre svenska pilotkommuner. De tre kommunerna deltog år 2008–2011 i ett nätverk som initierades av Sveriges kommuner och lands- ting (SKL) med fokus på att stötta ett införande av medborgarbudget som en del i kommunernas beslutsprocesser. I rapporten presenteras en modell som kan utgöra ett stöd för att visa och analysera vilka dimensioner som kan vara väsentliga att uppmärksamma i ett initiativ för att införa medborgarbudget som del i kommuners arbete. En redogörelse för kommunernas arbete och val kring initiativ med att införa medborgarbudget ges. I fokus för kommunernas intresse för med- borgarbudget har främst demokrati och delaktighet för medborgare stått. Initiativen hade vid nätverkets avslutning nått en begränsad grupp av med- verkande personer i pilotkommunerna. De aktiviteter som medborgarbud- getprojekten lett till hade dock i flera fall nått en större mängd medborgare än de som var direkt involverande i förslags- och röstningsförfarande, då projekten ofta resulterade i evenemang eller mindre byggprojekt som nådde en bredare publik.
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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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People Plan their Park: Voice and Choice through Participatory Budgeting
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. - 1833-1882. ; 6:5, s. 185-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This practice-based case study explores the means (structures and processes) and ends (objectives and outcomes) of a participatory budgeting program in which citizens in a Swedish local government (kommun) plan an important park. Participatory budgeting is about engaging community members in discussions about spending priorities, and in the development and choice of spending proposals. Such programs are part of a wider ideal and practice in which local governments worldwide increasingly undertake initiatives (e.g. citizen panels, referendums, and town hall meetings) to connect with their citizens so that the community can have a say in the things that really matter to it. Good budgeting by governments decreases risks and increases the prospects for good decision making and robust accountability, and participatory budgeting can be powerful device for change since budgeting provides a central process and structure for planning, implementation, control, evaluation, learning, and adaptation in government policy and action. This case study reveals the degree to which this program provides ends to do with good decisions, improved government capability, and enhanced community capacity-and interrogates the reliance on political ownership, managerial buy-in and experience, and the use of external consultants.
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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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- Solli, Rolf, 1953, et al.
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”Varför medborgarbudget nu?”
- 2011
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Ingår i: Sveriges kommuner och landsting (red) (2011) Medborgarbudget i Sverige, Europa och världen.. - Stockholm : Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting. ; , s. 83-88
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Solli, Rolf, 1953, et al.
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Young People, Big Ideas: Participatory Budgeting Fixes a River
- 2011
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. ; 7:1, s. 193-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Citizen participation in local government budgeting is an important emerging public management reform movement in many countries including Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Australia and now Sweden. ‘Participatory budgeting’ programs bring local communities into the decision-making process around formal resource allocation plans, and have the potential to give new levels of voice and choice about service and infrastructure expenditure to disconnected or disadvantaged and marginalised citizens and groups. This case study explores the form and function of the first tranche of participatory budgeting programs in a new major initiative that is sponsored by the central agency for local governments (kommuns) in Sweden. The kommun’s program set aside a substantial sum of money to be used in a new project around safety or the environment, and used groups of final year school students to design the participative processes, produce alternative proposals for a project, and vote on a final decision. The paper interrogates how the participatory budgeting program intersects with the themes of economic, cultural, social and environmental sustainability. The case study details the causes and dynamics behind the unanticipated choice made by the groups to compete rather than cooperate, and considers the way in which the final project decided upon was bolstered in funding, scope and execution by linking its main strands to other policy objectives. In the end, this engagement initiative was as much about strengthening democracy and a sense of community as it was about generating, capturing and implementing good ideas
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