Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management: Volume 36 Issue 1

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Lotta-Maria Sinervo, Luca Bartocci, Pauliina Lehtonen, Carol Ebdon

Sustainability is a pressing challenge of governance and public financial management. One key element of sustainable governance is the role of citizens. Participatory budgeting…

Youth participation in environmental sustainability: insights from the Lisbon participatory budget

Roberto Falanga

This article poses the question on whether and how youth participation in environmental sustainability makes a difference within participatory budgets (PBs). This is a question…

Premises for sustainability – participatory budgeting as a way to construct collaborative innovation capacity in local government

Meri Pulkkinen, Lotta-Maria Sinervo, Kaisa Kurkela

In this paper, the authors focus on participatory budgeting (PB) as an organizational issue in local government. The aim of this study is to analyze the premises of PB becoming…

Determinants of sustainability of participatory budgeting: Slovak perspective

Mária Murray Svidroňová, Martina Benzoni Baláž, Daniel Klimovský, Alena Kaščáková

The purpose of this research is to identify and test selected economic and organisational factors influencing the sustainability of participatory budgeting (PB) in Slovakia.

Participatory budgeting in francophone Africa: a comparative perspective between Benin and Niger

Philippe J.C. Lassou, Mladen Ostojic, Jacky Ulrich Barboza, Olayinka Moses

This research aims to examine the introduction of participatory budgeting (PB) in local governments in two Francophone countries, namely, Benin and Niger, and how local contextual…

Participatory budgeting and well-being: governance and sustainability in comparative perspective

Michael Touchton, Stephanie McNulty, Brian Wampler

Participatory budgeting's (PB’s) proponents hope that bringing development projects to historically underserved communities will improve well-being by extending infrastructure and…