Participatory Budgeting: Beyond the Dream

Participatory Budgeting:

Beyond the Dream

Bohdan Tyshkevych

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Researchers Society of Ukraine

E-mail: [email protected]

Seminar “Regional Development Problems of Ukraine”

“Early adopters”

of participatory

budgeting in

Ukraine

Source: Author

«Кожне місто має саме вибирати, для

чого це, куди це йде. Без стратегії і

загального бачення цей механізм буде

колесиком збоку. Потрібний зв’язок з

іншими формами, інструментами участі»,

Костянтин Плоский (Фундація ПАУСІ).

«Важливим аспектом є визначення

моделі партисипативного бюджету.

Для кожного міста модель унікальна»,

Леонід Донос (Інститут розвитку

міста (Полтава).

Emerging Challenges

Source: mistosite.org.ua

Participatory budgeting...? What for? Let's make a policy!

Focus shift from instrumental to missional thinking

Chapter I

Instrument

What is participatory budgeting?

Public

deliberation

Financial

dimensions

Frequency

Power of administration

is involved

Final decisions

1

4

32

5

Source: Legal framework and current practice in member states – Council of Europe Strasbourg, 17 October 2011

Annual Participatory

Budgeting Cycle

How does participatory budgeting work?

Source: Wampler, B. (2010). Participatory budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, cooperation, and accountability. Penn State Press

Chapter II

Policy

Key policy focuses of participatory budgeting in Brazil

Administrative reform3

Promotion of social justice2

Increasing public learning

and promotion of active

citizenship

1

Source: Shah, A. (Ed.). (2007). Participatory budgeting. World Bank Publications;

Photo: www.rioonwatch.org

Participatory budgeting across the world

Source: Sintomer, Y., Herzberg, C., & Röcke, A. (2012). Transnational models of citizen participation: The case of participatory

budgeting. Sociologies, 14(30), 70-116.

A number of

participatory budgets

across states and region

(2010)

Chapter III

Synthesis

Conventional stages of

the policy process

Policy cycle model

Source: Fischer, F., & Miller, G. J. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of public policy analysis: theory, politics, and methods. crc Press.

Agenda-

setting

Policy

formulation

Decision

Making

Implementation

Evaluation

1

4

2

4

5

Participatory budgeting agenda-setting for Ukraine

Socialist legacy1

Underdeveloped political culture5

Lack of social capital and

mobilization4

Anticorruption, decentralization,

public administration reforms2

The promotional role of foreign and

international institution3

Thank you for your attention!

Bohdan Tyshkevych

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Researchers Society of Ukraine

E-mail: [email protected]

Participatory Budgeting:

Beyond the Dream