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<p>Among the different instruments of collaborative governance, participatory budgeting (PB) is of particular interest in Poland. PB includes the residents who co-decide about local public expenditure. PB proponents suggest that it has the potential to democratize budgeting but others point to the ease with which organized groups sometimes capture the process to serve their interests. The analysis shows that due to the weak axiological grounds that result from the infringements of all nodal public values, e.g. human dignity, sustainability, citizen involvement, openness, secrecy, compromise, integrity, and robustness, PB in Poland has little potential to enhance accountability for the protection of the common good.</p>
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Among the different instruments of collaborative governance, participatory budgeting (PB) is of particular interest in Poland. PB includes the residents who co-decide about local public expenditure. PB proponents suggest that it has the potential to democratize budgeting but others point to the ease with which organized groups sometimes capture the process to serve their interests. The analysis shows that due to the weak axiological grounds that result from the infringements of all nodal public values, e.g. human dignity, sustainability, citizen involvement, openness, secrecy, compromise, integrity, and robustness, PB in Poland has little potential to enhance accountability for the protection of the common good.

Accountability, Public Values, and Participatory Budgeting in Poland

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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Among the different instruments of collaborative governance, participatory budgeting (PB) is of particular interest in Poland. PB includes the residents who...

Accountability, Public Values, and Participatory Budgeting in Poland

Published Online: Mar 17, 2022

Page range: 72 - 100

Received: May 18, 2021

Accepted: Dec 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2021-0011

Keywords
Accountability, participatory budgeting, public values, common good, integrity, axiology

© 2021 Urszula Kinga Zawadzka-Pąk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Accountability, Public Values, and Participatory Budgeting in Poland

Published Online: Mar 17, 2022

Page range: 72 - 100

Received: May 18, 2021

Accepted: Dec 30, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2021-0011

KeywordsAccountability, participatory budgeting, public values, common good, integrity, axiology

© 2021 Urszula Kinga Zawadzka-Pąk, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Accountability, participatory budgeting, public values, common good, integrity, axiology