Participatory Budgeting in Dabrowa Gornicza - a Research Report (original) (raw)
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The book is based on the first research results on this scale in Poland obtained thanks to the implementation of a project financed by the National Science Center (2019/33 / B / HS5 / 00353, NCN OPUS 17). The research used methods and tools in the form of desk research, CAWI, a survey and script interviews. One of the main reasons for undertaking the research was the fact that in the last decade the popularity of solutions involving citizens in shaping public expenditure under the civic budget has grown significantly in Poland, reaching a level comparable to world leaders in this category. The purpose of this research project focusing on analysis of public policies is to characterize and describe the tendencies in evolution of the participatory budget, an important tool in contemporary democracies, described and standardized in the Polish law as “civic budget”.
Participatory Budgeting in Poland – Assumptions vs Reality
The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies, 2018
sherry arnstein (1969), the author of the participation ladder, emphasizes that "social participation" resembles spinach eating-basically no one is against because in the end it is healthy. The article presents different views of participation (civic, social and individual participation). additionally the key assumptions for one of the techniques of engaging residents in social life, which is the participatory budget, are presented herein. The author, apart from the criteria and values of the civic budget and on the basis of observation and content analysis, pointed out the problems which polish cities face during the implementation of the participatory budgeting process. The article may provide a starting point for further reflections on not only the general state of participation in poland, but also on the analysis of polish participatory budgets .
Models of participatory budgeting - the case study of Polish city (A. Polko)
Journal of Economics and Management, Vol. 19/2015, 2015
Participatory budgeting as a tool of deliberative democracy is more and more popular in Polish cities. Literature review shows that there is no one the best procedure. Comparing with the typology of participatory budgeting based on European perspectives, the most of Polish cities has chosen model similar to ‘Porto Alegre adapted for Europe’. The weakest link of the Polish approach is to put too much efforts on the projects contest and much less on good-quality deliberation. The case study presented in the last part of the paper shows that each next edition of participatory budgeting contributes to raising awareness and better understanding of the urban development challenges and it should lead to changes the procedures from voting approach to participatory governance approach.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN POLAND. Quasi-referendum instead of deliberation
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a global phenomenon exemplifying a shift towards collaborative and participatory governance. This umbrella term embraces a huge variety of mechanisms of public participation in the budgetary process: from advanced consultation to a specific type of direct democracy. This article presents the results of extensive analysis of the Polish model of PB applied in nine municipalities of different size. It demonstrates that the model disseminated in Poland is based on quasi-referendum that guarantees the citizens direct impact on local budgets. However, participation is limited to minor part of local budgets and it is not accompanied with public deliberation over strategic issues. Therefore, the Polish model of PB does not offer genuine shift towards participatory local governance.
'A Polish Case Study: Participatory Budgeting in the City of Płock'
in: Yves Sintomer, Rudolf Traub-Merz, Junhua Zhang (dir.), Participatory Budgeting in Asia and Europe - Key Challenges of Deliberative Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, Hong Kong, p. 198-209, 2013., 2013
This chapter focuses on a local case of participatory budgeting in the Polish city of Płock. 1 However, it is of more general interest for two main reasons. First, participatory experiences are rare in Poland. As a pioneer in this field, Płock is often cited as an example or model, not just nationally, but also in Central and Eastern Europe. Second, this case sheds new light on the changing relationship between the public, the private and the non--profit sectors, in a context of systemic transformations marked by neoliberal policies and the retreat of the state.
Models of Participatory Budgeting - the Case Study of Polish City
2015
IntroductionParticipatory budgeting emerged for the first time at the end of 1980s in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Since then, both the principles and effects of this most famous example has been discussed many times (Sintomer, Herzberg, Rocke 2008; Baiocchi 2005; Avritzer 2006). During the last three decades the idea of participatory budgeting has spread to many places in the world. Therefore, there are more and more cities in Poland where participatory budgeting has been introduced. In 2013, more than 70 municipalities in Poland implemented this tool of democratic innovation (Kraszewski, Mojkowski 2014, p. 4).Both the growing popularity of participatory budgeting and at the same time a very large diversity of approaches used by local communities leads to many research questions: Is participatory budgeting only a fashionable tool used by local governments to create a favourable impression on citizens, or it is more and more significant tool for local governance? Does partici...
Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly
Participatory budgeting, also called civic budgeting, is a major instrument to facilitate engagement in local government affairs and foster social awareness among residents. It consists in involving residents in the allocation of a pool of public funds made available by local authorities. The purpose of this article is to assess the implementation of participatory budgeting in the city of Przemyśl, Podkarpackie Province, between 2013 and 2022. The assessment methods are desk research based on publicly available data, and interviews with city hall staff. The study confirms that the implementation of participatory budgeting made it possible to achieve the overarching goal of the project, which was to increase engagement by encouraging citizens to participate in public life and co-decide on the allocation of public funds.
Practical experiences in implementing participatory budgets on examples of selected cities in Poland
2020
The article presents the idea of the participatory budget and the course of its subsequent editions in selected cities in Poland – Lublin and Olkusz. Since 2018, participatory budgets have been based on the binding law. For several years now, participatory budgets have played an important role in urban development policy in Poland and have been a part of the public debate on local development with the involvement of residents. The article describes selected parts of the 2018 Act and analyses the development of budgets in Lublin and Olkusz.
Participatory Budget as a Tool Supporting the Development of Civil Society in Poland
The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Summer 2020, 2020
Although three decades have passed since the fall of communism in Poland, the observed level of social activity in the country is relatively low. Participatory budget emerged as an idea to increase the involvement of citizens in decision-making processes concerning their immediate surroundings. In addition to their inclusion in the activity of local government, this form of citizen participation is expected to have a positive impact on residents' involvement in activities for the benefit of the local community. The aim of this article is to indicate the conditions that influenced the implementation of the idea of the first participatory budget in Poland and emphasizing the importance of the civic budget in managing public administration through partial decentralization involving local communities in social dialogue for local investment initiatives, especially in large provincial cities in Poland. The following research question was adopted in the paper: has the introduction of a participatory budget in Poland increased social activity and has it been conducive to the development of civil society. In Poland, the initiative to create a civic budget met good political conditions in the relatively small city of Sopot, which had the resources to implement the project. After successful implementation, this initiative was relatively quickly adopted by other Polish local governments, which then on their own introduced social consultations called the civic budget. The study showed that the participatory budget indeed activates the local community around various projects. At the same time, the question of directly translating this activity into an increase in the number of organizations, associations and foundations remains debatable. The introduction of the participatory budget to administrative management practice in local-government units in Poland should be considered in terms of the soft power impact of administration on the shaping and development of civil society, which is still in the development stage in Poland.
Participatory Budgeting as a Form of Direct Democracy at the Local Level
Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego, 2019
The paper discusses participatory budgeting as one of the institutions of direct democracy and a form of co-decision of residents in the process of spending public funds at the disposal of local government units. Its essence is the activation of citizens, building trust and cooperation between the authorities and the inhabitants, as well as the implementation of the principles of equality and social justice. The significance of the participatory budgeting as a new form of influence on the decisions of the local government apparatus is not so much about ensuring citizens participation in managing public finances as it is primarily about education and increasing public awareness in the area of democratization of local government. The participatory budgeting in Poland was considered in the view of models of democracy: direct, representative (conventional) and participatory.