Participatory Budgeting in Slovenia

Klun, Maja; Benčina, Jože

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79930-4_14

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“…Similarly, the Fiscal Accountability, Sustainability, and Transparency Network initiative in North Macedonia was funded by USAID through the Civic Engagement Project in 2016; thanks to this support, PB has been adopted and used in eight municipalities there over the last three years (USAID, 2020). The first Slovenian adoption was expected to be the Maribor initiative in 2015; however, due to a combination of circumstances, this initiative was not successfully implemented and the first successful Slovenian adoption of PB actually happened one year later (Klun, Benčina, 2022). By 2019, more than 20 local governments in Slovenia had introduced this innovation (Klun, Stare, 2020).…”

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Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Klimovský

Junjan

Nemec

2021

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This is a summary article of the SJPS thematic issue on participatory budgeting in the Central and Eastern European region. Its authors provide an overview of the diffusion of participatory budgeting, and they classify relevant countries in terms of the pace of this diffusion into four different groups: frontrunners, early majority, later majority, and lagging adopters. In addition, they uncover various diffusion mechanisms that have been used. Since the research articles included in this thematic issue unpack various factors that influence the diffusion of the innovative practice of participatory budgeting in the specific settings of Central and Eastern Europe, the main goal of this article is to sum up their crucial findings and formulate several conclusions, including a few avenues for further research. A clear majority of countries in the region have already collected a relevant amount of experience with the adoption and further use of participatory budgeting. An analysis of the individual experiences reveals that the position and characteristics of mayors, organizational resources, and available capacities, as well as the quality of public trust, are likely to be important factors that determine the adoption and use of participatory budgeting in the region.

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Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Klimovský

Junjan

Nemec

2021

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“…Slovenia is an interesting administrative environment due to its resilience and impact of the local context on reform outcomes -inter alia evident in the failure to achieve full convergence with the EU benchmarks on administrative reform (Verheijen, 2010, p. 232). Moreover, the Slovenian context has provided space for the emergence of some authentic collaborative innovations, such as participatory budgeting (Klun and Stare, 2019) and co-creation and co-production initiatives at the national and local levels (Vrbek and Jukić, 2021;Dečman, 2019;Bastin and Weinberg, 2018). The limited research conducted specifically about the co-creation experience of Slovenian public organisations has managed to capture co-creation drivers and barriers related to (un)favourable organisational features (Hržica et al, 2021;Vrbek and Jukić, 2021), thus drawing an image of the Slovenian public sector as a rather centralised structure embodying top-down culture (Regal and Ferlie, 2020).…”

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Command, Control and Co-Creation: Drivers and Barriers Faced by Professionals Co-Creating in the Slovenian Public Sector

Vrbek

Kuiper

2022

CEPAR

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The academic contribution to the field is twofold. Firstly, the paper identifies co-creation drivers and barriers from the professionals’ point of view ‒ a largely overlooked perspective in the relevant literature. Secondly, by being placed in the Slovenian administrative context, the paper complements and enriches the debate on co-creation shaped predominantly by the experience of Northern and Western Europe. Purpose: By focusing on the Slovenian public sector, as a traditionally hierarchical administrative context, the paper aims to identify factors that stimulate professionals to implement co-creation in their everyday work, as well as factors that impede their decision and behaviour in this direction. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relies on two Slovenian case studies capturing the experience of professionals from the Ministry of Public Administration and the Municipality of Ljubljana. The key data-gathering methods were qualitative open-ended interviews with ‘lead professionals’ (at managerial positions) and focus groups with professionals who have regular contact with service users/external stakeholders and/or experience with co-creation. Findings: The findings of the paper indicate that professionals implement co-creation even in ‘unfavourable’ hierarchical and centralised settings. A key driver for them to co-create in such a context is strong political support at the highest level. However, a more profound internalisation of co-creation depends on the redefinition of their professional identity, as well as on the (personal or collective/organisational) interest in co-creation. Originality/significance: The paper makes a pioneer step in providing an in-depth look into the drivers and barriers professionals face when implementing co-creation in the Slovenian public sector. As such, it provides valuable input for further comparative analyses of co-creation drivers and barriers faced by professionals across Central and Eastern Europe.

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Predictors, Determinant Groups, and Participatory Budgeting

Klun

Benčina

2021

SJPS

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Recent developments in local public finance management in Slovenia indicate the local governments’ growing interest in introducing participatory budgeting as a decision-making tool, wherein part of local resources are used with citizen participation. Usually, the literature on participation budgeting analyses its effects, but our main research objective was to analyze the possible determinants influencing its implementation. The influence of political factors, sociodemographic factors, economic factors, and the capability of municipalities are examined here using binary logistic regression to predict a dichotomous dependent variable from a set of predictor variables. In binary logistic regression, predictable variables are the probability of one category being chosen. In this case, the authors calculated the probability that a municipality, described by selected prediction variables, would implement a participatory budget. The results of the analysis suggest six indicators that impact the probability of participatory budgeting adoption, proving the influence of four determinants on the decision to adopt such a measure.

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Participatory Budgeting in Slovenia

Cited by 3 publications

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Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Selected Factors Determining the Adoption and Use of Participatory Budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe

Command, Control and Co-Creation: Drivers and Barriers Faced by Professionals Co-Creating in the Slovenian Public Sector

Predictors, Determinant Groups, and Participatory Budgeting

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