Democracy, governmentality and transparency: participatory budgeting in action

Abstract

This paper examines initiatives in participatory budgeting (PB) in a city in the UK, a country which is a slow adopter of PB. While there are UK initiatives on PB, these are developmental. Nevertheless, this study underlines the potential of participatory budgeting in an Anglo Saxon context. The finance of local government and cities is notoriously opaque. PB has the potential to enhance both democratic accountability and effective city management through transparency. This study reveals a city which is profitably engaged with democratising its budgetary activities and seeking to achieve greater transparency for its citizens and managers through the modernisation of established practice.

Implementasi Penganggaran Partisipatif Di Indonesia

“…Ada bukti yang menunjukan bahwa masyarakat dapat mencapai tingkat tranparansi yang tinggi (Biondi dan Lapsley 2014; Lapsley dan Ríos 2015) tidak hanya mendapat akses informasi anggaran tetapi juga memahami informasi tersebut dan berbagi pengalaman mengenai proses anggaran bersama dengan masyarakat lain. (Brun-Martos & Lapsley, 2017).…”

“…Temuan dalam makalah ini, terutama dalam praktik anggaran konsultasi, ungkapkan potensi hubungan yang mendalam ini untuk dibuat antara warga negara, politisi terpilih dan manajer kota. (Brun-Martos & Lapsley, 2017).…”

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“…PB has been formally integrated into the public budgeting system in Tanzania since early 2000s. It involves top-down and bottom-up participatory budgetary processes that Martos & Lapsley, 2017;Harun, Van-Peursem, & Eggleton, 2015). That serves as the motivation to study PB in the Tanzanian context to contribute to the wider scholarship in participatory public budgeting and democratic processes.…”

The processes of public megaproject cost estimation: The inaccuracy of reference class forecasting

“…The article further contributes to the scarce literature on public project budgeting (see Anessi‐Pessina, Barbera, Sicilia, & Steccolini, , for a thorough literature review of public budgeting). The literature on public budgeting has primarily looked into budgeting's changing role and features related to broader reform processes (e.g., Brun‐Martos & Lapsley, ; Edwards, Ezzamel, & Robson, ; Ezzamel, Robson, & Stapleton, ; Muniesa & Linhardt, ) and not on “understanding budgeting per se,” including “the dynamics of the budgeting process” (Anessi‐Pessina et al., , pp. 509–510) and even less on public project budgeting processes.…”