Models of Participatory Budgeting.
Analysis of Participatory Budgeting Procedures in Poland
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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
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independent marketing company
Publication date: 2021-12-14
Polish Sociological Review 2021;216(4):473-492
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ABSTRACT
This paper presents a study on participatory budgeting in Poland, analyzing participatory budgeting
procedures. We apply the typology of participation models proposed by Sintomer, and based on the previous
research we investigate which model of participatory budgeting is characteristic for Poland. This study covered
49 cases of participatory budgeting implementation in Western Poland, mainly in the Wielkopolska Province and
the neighboring provinces. The results show that none of the municipalities covered by the study had a relatively
pure participatory budgeting model, as proposed by Sintomer. The procedures in the analyzed municipalities can
be characterized as the patchwork participatory budgeting model.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This article benefited greatly from the comments of two anonymous reviewers.
FUNDING
This research was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under grant “Local elites’ reception of social consultation—a comparative case study” (no. 2016/21/N/HS6/02822) led by Krzysztof Mączka. Moreover, it was co-financed by the Institute of Sociology and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Krzysztof Mączka was supported by the
Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)—scholarship START edition 2020.