Participatory budgeting gains momentum around the world, and increasing evidence provides mixed results about its efects. Under these circumstances, it is unclear if citizens consider it a source of empowerment and an avenue for efective decisionmaking in the life of their local community. We know very little about how participants in participatory budgeting perceive the collective empowerment. This article seeks to identify the factors that shape these perceptions about the empowerment potential of participatory budgeting. It focuses on the critical case of Cluj-Napoca and uses 25 semi-structured interviews conducted in October–November 2020 with three categories of participants. Our fndings indicate that participants acknowledge the potential for collective empowerment and praise the limited political involvement but identify design issues and resource allocation as weakening the empowerment potential.
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference / Sorina Soare; Sergiu Marian Gherghina; Paul Tap. - In: ACTA POLITICA. - ISSN 0001-6810. - ELETTRONICO. - online first:(2022), pp. 1-18. [10.1057/s41269-022-00273-4]
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference
Sorina Soare;
2022
Abstract
Participatory budgeting gains momentum around the world, and increasing evidence provides mixed results about its efects. Under these circumstances, it is unclear if citizens consider it a source of empowerment and an avenue for efective decisionmaking in the life of their local community. We know very little about how participants in participatory budgeting perceive the collective empowerment. This article seeks to identify the factors that shape these perceptions about the empowerment potential of participatory budgeting. It focuses on the critical case of Cluj-Napoca and uses 25 semi-structured interviews conducted in October–November 2020 with three categories of participants. Our fndings indicate that participants acknowledge the potential for collective empowerment and praise the limited political involvement but identify design issues and resource allocation as weakening the empowerment potential.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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