Views from the field: creating a place for authentic citizen participation in budgeting
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management
- Vol. 14 (3) , 423-444
- https://doi.org/10.1108/jpbafm-14-03-2002-b005
Abstract
Citizen participation in budgeting is often achieved by compliance with legal statutes on public hearing requirements. These pragmatic and legalistically-based approaches to citizen participation are examined, and the potential for creating participation that realizes more than meeting legal requirements is discussed. The author suggests that recommendations from recent work on citizen participation and governance can be used as standards for evaluating and improving citizen participation in budgeting, and applies these suggestions to a case example in city government finance.Keywords
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