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Local participatory budgeting in a multilevel government – an institutional analysis of Ecuadorian municipal expenditure policies

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  • Droste, Nils

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  • Lienhoop, Nele
  • Hansjürgens, Bernd

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This paper analyses participatory budgeting in multilevel governance settings. The Institutional Development and Analysis framework is applied to evaluate two Ecuadorian municipal case studies. Here, participatory budgeting piloted bottom-up institutions to include citizens’ preferences in the allocation of local government expenditures. To formalize and up-scale these local innovations, participatory budgeting became a requirement for all government levels under the 2008 constitution. Higher government level requirements for planning subsequently introduced conflicting demands on decentral budgetary processes and led to partial re-centralization of municipal investment planning. The study thus exemplifies difficulties of i) vertical policy coordination in multilevel participatory budgeting and ii) integrating long-term planning in yearly participatory budgeting investment decisions. These problems need to be resolved to facilitate legitimate and effective participatory budgeting in multilevel governments.

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  • Droste, Nils & Lienhoop, Nele & Hansjürgens, Bernd, 2021. "Local participatory budgeting in a multilevel government – an institutional analysis of Ecuadorian municipal expenditure policies," SocArXiv w6usk_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:w6usk_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/w6usk_v1
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