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Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?

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This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top priorities by citizens, and increased satisfaction levels with public services. These effects, however, were found only when the model was implemented in already-mature administratively and politically decentralized local governments. The findings highlight the importance of initial conditions with respect to the decentralization context for the success of participatory governance.

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  • Beuermann, Diether & Amelina, Maria, 2014. "Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 6699, Inter-American Development Bank.
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    Cited by:

    1. Annette Omolo & Bruce Macphail & Rose Wanjiru, 2018. "Inclusive and Effective Citizen Engagement," World Bank Publications - Reports 29620, The World Bank Group.
    2. Saguin, Kidjie, 2018. "Why the poor do not benefit from community-driven development: Lessons from participatory budgeting," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 220-232.

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    Keywords

    Russia; training; technical assistance; Decentralization; participatory budgeting;
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    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • P35 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Public Finance

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