Title Participatory budgeting in Asia and Europe : key challenges of participation / edited by Yves Sintomer, Professor of Sociology, University of Paris 8, France, Rudolf Traub-Merz, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Shanghai, China ; Junhua Zhang, Professor of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China; with assistance from Carsten Herzberg

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description xv, 269 pages : Illustrations ; 22 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Participatory Budgeting - A Global View / Carsten Herzberg -- 1.1.Porto Alegre: The cradle of participatory budgeting -- 1.2.The return of the caravels: Participatory budgeting in Europe -- 1.3.Participatory budgeting in China and Asia: Between autochthonous development and international exchanges -- 1.4.Conclusion -- pt. I Asian Experiences -- 2.Participatory Budgeting in the City of Ichikawa / Akira Matsubara -- 2.1.Local government budget-making and citizens' participation -- 2.2.Participatory budgeting in the city of Ichikawa -- 2.3.Conclusion -- 3.Participatory Budgeting in Dong-gu, Ulsan: A Korean Case Study / Ahn Songmin -- 3.1.Context -- 3.2.The functioning of participatory budgeting -- 3.3.Evaluation of participatory budgeting in Dong-gu -- 3.4.Conclusion -- 4.Participatory Budgeting in Indonesia - The Tanah Datar Experience / Martina Neunecker -- 4.1.The Indonesian background - Big-bang decentralisation -- Contents note continued: 4.2.The case of Tanah Datar -- 4.3.Participatory budgeting in Tanah Datar - Strengths and weaknesses -- 4.4.Conclusion -- 5.Democratic Decentralisation and Participatory Budgeting: The Kerala Experience / Martina Neunecker -- 5.1.The state of Kerala -- 5.2.Participatory budgeting in Kerala -- 5.3.Achievements -- 5.4.Conclusion -- pt. II A Focus on China -- 6.Participatory Budgeting in China: An Overview / Baogang He -- 6.1.Brief history of PB -- 6.2.Definition -- 6.3.From state to public budget - incentives and motives -- 6.4.Organizers of PB -- 6.5.Various patterns of PB -- 6.6.Problems -- 6.7.Conclusion -- 7.Some Thoughts on Participatory Budgeting in China - A Case Study of Budget Reform in Minhang District / Liu Wei -- 7.1.Background -- 7.2.In practice -- 7.3.Conclusion -- 8.Assessing China's ̀Sunshine Finance' Policy - Offline and Online / Ling Zhang -- 8.1.Striving for institutionalized control -- Contents note continued: 8.2.Three measures and high expectations of the ̀Golden Finance Project' -- 8.3.E-government: The hope of fiscal institutionalisation? -- 8.4.Conclusion -- 9.Assessing Transparency in Provincial Government Budgeting in China / Jiang Hong -- 9.1.Background and objectives of the assessment -- 9.2.Project design and organisation -- 9.3.Assessment of results -- 9.4.Recommendations -- 9.5.Conclusion -- 10.Problems of Participation in China Today: Urban Neighbourhood Communities / Thomas Heberer -- 10.1.Participation: forms and political dimension -- 10.2.Elections and electoral processes in neighbourhood communities -- 10.3.Conclusion -- pt. III European Experiences -- 11.Participation and Modernisation. Participatory Budgeting in Germany: The Example of Berlin-Lichtenberg / Carsten Herzberg -- 11.1.The context of participatory budgets and of participative modernisation -- 11.2.First period (1998-2004): Experiences of Hilden and Emsdetten -- Contents note continued: 11.3.Second period (since 2005): Berlin-Lichtenberg - Porto Alegre in Germany? -- 11.4.The trend to proximity democracy -- 11.5.Conclusion. What is the future for participative modernisation? -- 12.Participatory Budgeting in Great Britain: Between a Neoliberal Agenda and Community Empowerment / Anja Rocke -- 12.1.Centralism, privatisation and community empowerment -- 12.2.Participatory budgeting as participatory grant-making -- 12.3.The diffusion of participatory budgeting -- 12.4.Conclusion: a fourth way? -- 13.A Polish Case Study: Participatory Budgeting in the City of Plock / Dorota Dakowska -- 13.1.Context -- 13.2.The origins and functioning of the ̀Small Grants Fund' -- 13.3.Results of the Grants Fund initiative -- 13.4.Conclusion -- 14.Participatory Budgeting and Social Justice: Implications of Some Cases in Spain and Italy / Giovanni Allegretti -- 14.1.Italy: the possibility of another urban world -- Contents note continued: 14.2.Spain: explicit goals but limited effects on redistribution -- 14.3.Conclusion: how much does social justice matter? -- 15.Participatory Budgeting and Mobilisation in Spain: Who Participates and How? / Francisco Frances -- 15.1.How to mobilise participants -- 15.2.Who participates? -- 15.3.Conclusion -- 16.Participatory Democracy or ̀Proximity' Democracy? The ̀High School Participatory Budget' in Poitou-Charentes, France / Julien Talpin -- 16.1.Power and participation -- 16.2.Progress and problems of participatory modernisation -- 16.3.Beyond proximity: the question of scale -- 16.4.Conclusion: between proximity democracy and participatory democracy Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Political participation -- Europe. Budget -- Asia. Budget -- Europe. Political participation -- Asia. Local budgets -- Asia -- Citizen participation. Local budgets -- Europe -- Citizen participation. Local finance -- Asia. Local finance -- Europe. Public administration -- Asia -- Citizen participation. Author Traub-Merz, Rudolf. Sintomer, Yves. Zhang, Junhua, 1958- LC no. 2012047285 ISBN 9781137009142

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