CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Forkovicova, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding Participatory Budgeting: Lessons learned from Bratislava |
| Summary | Participatory budgeting is one of the current emerging trends in deliberative and participatory innovations in Europe and in the world. Despite the growing literature, number of analyzed cases from the post-communist countries is still unsatisfactory. This thesis tries to fill in the niche in the literature by presenting a case study of participatory budgeting in Slovakia. I collected unique data which show that a civil association can be a successful initiator of such democratic innovation. The conclusions regarding participation suggest that, on one hand, there are special supportive mechanisms for including young people and elderly who are considered to be underrepresented in the political process. On the other hand, there are high time and energy requirements placed on citizens who participate at the highest level, though having the largest effect on the final outcome. |
| Supervisor | Popescu, Marina |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/forkovicova_anna.pdf |
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