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Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting

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  • Pauliina Lehtonen

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This article explores how participatory budgeting (PB), which is described as a travelling policy innovation, has been interpreted in different urban governance contexts, particularly how local settings that are created by contexts and practices enable participation in PB. Travelling policy innovations are sets of ideas or experiments that aim at renewing governance practices and are adopted globally. PB engages citizens to discuss, prioritize and decide about the use of public funds. With empirical data from the cities of Tampere, Łódź, and the Greater Manchester area the article demonstrates that settings of participation in PB are conditioned by (1) socio-political context, (2) objectives setting, (3) resourcing, (4) decision-making and (5) relationship-building. Based on an interpretive view on policy studies, it is argued that these settings enable participation in PB in three ways. Firstly, they influence the continuity of PB; secondly, they suggest particular roles for participants; and thirdly, they formulate the level of interaction. This is demonstrated with three operationalisations of PB, such as pop-up PB, traditional PB and do-it-yourself PB.

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  • Pauliina Lehtonen, 2022. "Policy on the move: the enabling settings of participation in participatory budgeting," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(5), pages 1036-1054, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:43:y:2022:i:5:p:1036-1054
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2021.1895981
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    2. Martina Benzoni Baláž & Juraj Nemec, 2022. "Electronic support of participatory budgeting in Slovakia? [Elektronická podpora participatívneho rozpočtovania na Slovensku]," Český finanční a účetní časopis, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2022(2), pages 39-50.

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