Smart Governance: An Investigation into Participatory Budgeting Models
Environmental Sciences Proceedings. Vol.11, Iss.1: The 9th Annual Edition of Sustainable Places (SP 2021) 2021
Sandra Treija, Uģis Bratuškins, Alisa Koroļova, Arnis Lektauers

Promoting public participation in urban processes has long been a key issue in discussions about urban governance. However, despite the advantages of more progressive and inclusive city governance, participatory budgeting (PB) often faces challenges to ensure collaboration between different city departments and involved residents. In some cases, residents are unsure about PB models’ transparency, other examples show the way NGOs use the model as a counterforce to central governance and thus local actors lack political and financial support. Moreover, uncertainty and restrictions imposed by the global pandemic in some way also impacted the realization of PB. This research aims to identify stakeholders in the participatory budgeting approach, describing opportunities and challenges of the organizational process and digital technologies as a means of enabling communication and collaboration between actors.


Keywords
smart governance; participatory budgeting; urban regeneration
DOI
10.3390/environsciproc2021011030
Hyperlink
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4931/11/1/30

Treija, S., Bratuškins, U., Koroļova, A., Lektauers, A. Smart Governance: An Investigation into Participatory Budgeting Models. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2021, Vol. 11, No. 1, Article number 30. ISSN 2673-4931. Available from: doi:10.3390/environsciproc2021011030

Publication language
English (en)
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