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Participatory budgeting in Croatia: A way to improve quality of local governance?

Increasingly popular method of co-production, which engages citizens in the process of service planning, is participatory budgeting (PB). The aim of the paper is to critically review the model of PB in Croatian local units, to identify the model(s) applied and to evaluate the contribution of the PB practices to quality of local governance in Croatia. The analysis of PB in Croatia showed there were very few towns implementing “Porto Alegre” or “Consultation” models of PB, but not all of them succeed to effectively engage citizens in preparation of local budget and making decision on local projects. Practices are mostly limited to insufficient efforts in consultation processes without possibilities for the citizens to decide on previously defined amount of finances.

participatory budgeting, local governance, Croatia

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