No Money, No Representation: A Case Study of Zeguo Town in China

Ye, Jing

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“…Some studies have identified a connection between certain adoptions of PB and resource availability (e.g. Rios et al, 2017;Ye, 2018), noting that governments were more likely to adopt administrative reforms, including to enhance citizen participation in the budget process, only when there was greater resource availability. Thus, it seems that PB might be a "luxury" to be practiced during good times.…”

Section: Financial Sustainabilitymentioning

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Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Sinervo,

Bartocci,

Lehtonen

et al. 2024

JPBAFM

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PurposeSustainability is a pressing challenge of governance and public financial management. One key element of sustainable governance is the role of citizens. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a participatory tool with which citizens can influence public administration. PB is a democratic process that grants people real power over real money and it has spread around the world. This special issue explores the role of PB in the context of sustainable governance. In this editorial, the authors aim to approach PB as a form of sustainable governance.Design/methodology/approachIn this editorial, the authors collaborate in the analysis of how PB is implicated in the public management of complex social, economic and ecological issues. The authors identify key dimensions of internal and external sustainability based on prior research. The authors approach these dimensions as an internal–external nexus of sustainable governance in which organizational and financial sustainability are the internal dimensions and socio-political and environmental sustainability are the external dimensions.FindingsEven though PB can be seen as one tool for citizen participation, it has the potential to foster sustainability in multiple ways. PB, as a form of sustainable governance, requires a financially and administratively sustainable organizational process that results in the institutionalization of PB. It also includes thorough consideration of socio-political and environmental sustainability impacts of PB.Originality/valueAcademics are actively studying PB from various perspectives. However, most of this work has approached PB from the viewpoints of design and results of PB, and less is known about its institutional settings. PB has not yet been adequately studied in the context of sustainability, and there is a need to scrutinize PB as a form of sustainable governance.

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Section: Financial Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Sinervo,

Bartocci,

Lehtonen

et al. 2024

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“…Several factors played a role in facilitating the combination of PB and DP in Zeguo. Fiscal affluence based on land was one important background factor for the introduction of PB through DP (Ye, ). Officials at Wenling City required its townships to examine their budget issues through civic participation in 2008.…”

Section: The Combination Of Pb and Dp In Zeguomentioning

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Deliberative participatory budgeting: A case study of Zeguo Town in China

2019

Public Admin & Development

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The search for a better practice instrument of civic engagement has led to participatory budgeting and deliberative polling in recent years. Participatory budgeting stresses empowerment and citizens' struggle against the establishment and unequal social structures, whereas deliberative polling works within the system and focuses on improving democratic decision-making processes by applying credible social science methods. Often, these two processes are presented as being in conflict with each other, which is to the detriment of the search for best practice in deliberative governance. This paper develops a theoretical analysis of deliberative participatory budgeting which is distinguished from unrepresentative and non-deliberative but self-selected participatory budgeting; that is, it considers how the quality of participatory budgeting can be improved through deliberative polling. This theoretical analysis is backed by an empirical study of deliberative participatory budgeting in ZeguoTownship, Zhejiang Province, China. It explores whether, how, and under what conditions it is possible to combine deliberative polling and participatory budgeting. It details four experiments and assesses the successes, failures, limitations, and problems of the experiments. The case of Zeguo offers scholars, activists, and officials lessons about how to pursue best deliberative practice in both authoritarian states and democratic societies.

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“…These formal modifications also encompass the creation, modification, or elimination of rules, governance mechanisms, and techniques in a given policy domain. For instance, scholars might investigate new regulations in a particular area, such as environmental or fiscal policy, or even entirely redesigned institutional arrangements, such as experiments with participatory budgeting (He and Warren 2017;Yan and Xin 2016;Ye 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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2018

chinaperspectives

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How has the Xi Jinping administration recentralised authority over China's politics and economy? Studies of Xi's rule often suggest that his "core leader" status, revolutionary heritage, and informal network of loyalists underpin this consolidation of central control. In contrast, this article focuses on the state sector to highlight how the Xi administration's recentralisation of authority is grounded in existing governance mechanisms and techniques: central leading small groups, the cadre management system, Party committees, and campaigns. Using policy documents and an original dataset on central state-owned enterprise leaders, I provide evidence that the Xi administration has leveraged each of these four methods to reclaim central authority relative to the preceding Hu Jintao administration. These findings contribute to scholarship on adaptive authoritarian governance and economic reform in China by underscoring that administrations can use existing instruments of central control in divergent ways.

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No Money, No Representation: A Case Study of Zeguo Town in China

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Deliberative participatory budgeting: A case study of Zeguo Town in China

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