Predictors, Determinant Groups, and Participatory Budgeting

Abstract

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.

Determinants of sustainability of participatory budgeting: Slovak perspective

“…From a CEE perspective, it is interesting to compare our findings with the results of some other research conducted in CEE settings. For example, Klun and Ben cina (2021) investigate a set of factors that affect the probability of adopting PB in Slovenia using a quantitative analysis approach. According to their findings, the length of a mayor's tenure, together with their experience and organisational competencies, can be considered as important positive determinants for the adoption and further implementation of PB initiatives.…”

“…Our results show that local governments are more likely to adopt or implement PB if they are in a better financial position. While this is a relatively common approach in CEE (Klun and Benčina, 2021; Soukop et al ., 2021), in Germany, for example, the behaviour of local governments is different. Apostolou and Eckardt (2022), based on exploratory cluster analysis and confirmatory mean analysis, show that the adoption of the PB process is more likely in municipalities with financial problems.…”

“…1.5 A level of experience of main policy makers (mayors) Several authors have argued that the adoption of PB could lead, inter alia, to greater transparency (Jacobi, 1999;Baiocchi, 2001;Carroll et al, 2016;Cabannes and Lipietz, 2018) and greater accountability of the relevant decision makers (Spada, 2009;Wampler and Avritzer, 2005;Beuermann and Amelina, 2018; Kuku ckov a and Bako s, 2019; Klun and Ben cina, 2021). This opens up an exciting area of research related to those actors and/or stakeholders who are empowered to make decisions about the allocation of public resources.…”

Determinants of the success of participatory budgets in Poland

“…For example, in Slovenia, possible determinants influencing the implementation of participatory budgeting were analyzed. Klun and Benčina [2021] investigated the impact of political factors, sociodemographic factors, economic factors, and the ability of municipalities to predict a dichotomous dependent variable from a set of predictor variables using binary logistic regression. They used 36 indicators, showing that 6 affect the PB.…”

Understanding the role of arrangement of treasury archives in preventing fraud at regional financial and revenue management agency

“…Nevertheless, there is no legal basis for the management and delivery of public complaints. The public is an evaluator and controller of agencies / apparatus as the implementation of regulations (Klimovský et al, 2021;Klun & Benčina, 2021;Rustiarini et al, 2019). Public service is an issue that always colors people's daily lives.…”