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We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
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Demediuk, Peter (author)
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- Solli, Rolf, 1953 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Förvaltningshögskolan,Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI),School of Public Administration
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Burgess, Stephen (author)
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2011
- 2011
- English.
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In: The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. ; 7:1, s. 179-192
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- 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'.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Participatory Budgeting
- Local Government
- Sweden
- Community Engagement
- Social Sustainability
- Economic Sustainability
- Environmental Sustainability
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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