PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE:
A USEFUL TOOL OR TREND?
A USEFUL TOOL OR TREND?
Joint session of the NISPAcee WG1 and WG5
This joint session, initiated by Daniel Klimovský (WG1) and Juraj Nemec (WG5), will be held during the 29th NISPAcee Annual Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The session is one of the academic events initiated within the INLOGOB research project aimed at budgetary innovations, including participatory budgeting. Its main goal is to facilitate a meaningful and useful sharing of knowledge among scholars from various European countries and the CEE region in particular. Participatory budgeting has its roots in Latin America, where it was introduced as a tool to empower marginalized or vulnerable groups that usually do not enjoy any proper voice in public decision-making processes. It is an innovation that is usually understood as a tool that supports democratization. However, it undoubtedly has broader managerial and financial implications from policymakers' point of view. Most of the contributions will be directly focused on the multiple aspects of participatory budgeting, a number of introductory papers will address the topic from a more general perspective; their authors will deal with citizen participation as well as civic engagement.
The joint session will be organized in three parts. Each part will consist of four presentations of the expected papers. Each single presentation shall not exceed a twelve-minute time limit and will then be followed by comments and recommendations from a discussant. The discussant's contribution shall not exceed five minutes. A list of discussants and their papers will be announced after the conference registration deadline.
Those delivering papers will have an opportunity to submit their work for publication in issue 2/2021 of the Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, which will focus on participatory budgeting. The issue will be published online in the second half of 2021. All submitted papers will be reviewed through a standard double-blind peer review process that will be managed by the journal. All relevant information on the special issue will be delivered to those who will be giving papers after the conference registration deadline.
The joint session will be organized in three parts. Each part will consist of four presentations of the expected papers. Each single presentation shall not exceed a twelve-minute time limit and will then be followed by comments and recommendations from a discussant. The discussant's contribution shall not exceed five minutes. A list of discussants and their papers will be announced after the conference registration deadline.
Those delivering papers will have an opportunity to submit their work for publication in issue 2/2021 of the Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, which will focus on participatory budgeting. The issue will be published online in the second half of 2021. All submitted papers will be reviewed through a standard double-blind peer review process that will be managed by the journal. All relevant information on the special issue will be delivered to those who will be giving papers after the conference registration deadline.
AGENDA:
Part I (90 min) PHYSICAL (chair: Daniel Klimovský)
1)Daniel Klimovský (Slovakia) + Juraj Nemec (Slovakia): Openning of the joint session
2)Iwona Sobis (Sweden) + Michiel S. de Vries (Netherlands): Citizen participation in local public life, decision-making and development under the period of 2005 – 2020 across the EU member states: A literature review
3)Elżbieta Szulc-Wałecka (Poland): Citizen Participation and Engagement in Participatory Governance – Perspective of Polish Local Officials in Selected Municipalities of the Lubelskie Region
4)Natalia Cuglesan (Romania): Local governance and Participatory Democracy: Experiments of digital participatory budgeting in Romania
5)Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak (Poland) + Pauliina Lehtonen (Finland): Inclusion as ownership in local participatory budgeting: PB facilitators’ interpretations on the agency of children and young people
6)Q&A part
Part II (90 min) PHYSICAL (chair: Juraj Nemec)
1)Maja Klun (Slovenia) + Jože Benčina (Slovenia): Determinants of Participatory Budgeting in Slovenian Municipalities
2)Jaroslav Dvorak (Lithuania) + Gabrielė Burbulytė-Tsiskarishvili (Lithuania) + Valentina Burkšienė (Lithuania): Lessons Learnt from Evidence-Based Participatory Budgeting in Lithuania: Case of EmPaci Project
3)Nejc Brezovar (Slovenia): Implementing participatory budget at municipal level and Covid-19 impact – experience from Slovenia
4)Péter Klotz (Hungary): A New Role Model for Local Governments? - Budget Transparency and Participatory Budgeting of Budapest
5)Daniel Klimovský (Slovakia) + Jozef Gašparík (Slovakia): The First Decade of Participatory Budgeting in Slovakia: Drivers, Models, and Impacts
6)Q&A part
Part III (60 min) ONLINE (chair: Daniel Klimovský)
1)Martina Eckhardt (Hungary) + Janina Apostolou (Germany): Municipal debt crisis and the adoption of Participatory Budgeting – an empirical analysis for Germany
2)Ioana Maria Costea (Romania) + Despina-Martha Ilucă (Romania): The obligation to be silent – citizen intervention in budgetary procedures
3)Q&A part
4)Juraj Nemec (Slovakia) + Daniel Klimovský (Slovakia): Concluding remarks and closure of the joint session