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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN KHARKIV: INSTITUTIONAL AND PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINTS
The article is devoted to the analysis of the participatory budgeting as a participatory democracy mechanism on the example of the Kharkiv city case. Based on the study of international and Ukrainian experience of implementing the civil budget, the formal institutional framework for realization of the participatory budgeting in Kharkiv, fixed in the City Target Program “Public Budget (Participatory Budgeting) of the City of Kharkiv for 2018-2021”, is explored. The analysis substantiates the existence of institutional and procedural constraints that reduce the effectiveness of the implementation of that direct democracy practice. One of the disputable procedural moments is the process of preliminary verification of the projects that were applied for the participatory budgeting, since the criteria for projects’ initiatives that will eventually be presented to the public for voting are spelled out in very general principles. The other one considers the fact that although NGOs alongside with natural persons can also participate in the process of civil budgeting, in fact, is only an author of the project, just an idea provider. The results of the analysis lead to the conclusion that due to the developed legal mechanisms the entire process of participatory budgeting in Kharkiv is much politicized and lies in the direct control zone of the mayor's office. On this basis the recommendations in the procedural aspect are made. The prospects for the further research authors foresee also in the sphere of the monitoring the implementation of projects and evaluating their effectiveness.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN KHARKIV: INSTITUTIONAL AND PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINTS
The article is devoted to the analysis of the participatory budgeting as a participatory democracy mechanism on the example of the Kharkiv city case. Based on the study of international and Ukrainian experience of implementing the civil budget, the formal institutional framework for realization of the participatory budgeting in Kharkiv, fixed in the City Target Program “Public Budget (Participatory Budgeting) of the City of Kharkiv for 2018-2021”, is explored. The analysis substantiates the existence of institutional and procedural constraints that reduce the effectiveness of the implementation of that direct democracy practice. One of the disputable procedural moments is the process of preliminary verification of the projects that were applied for the participatory budgeting, since the criteria for projects’ initiatives that will eventually be presented to the public for voting are spelled out in very general principles. The other one considers the fact that although NGOs alongside with natural persons can also participate in the process of civil budgeting, in fact, is only an author of the project, just an idea provider. The results of the analysis lead to the conclusion that due to the developed legal mechanisms the entire process of participatory budgeting in Kharkiv is much politicized and lies in the direct control zone of the mayor's office. On this basis the recommendations in the procedural aspect are made. The prospects for the further research authors foresee also in the sphere of the monitoring the implementation of projects and evaluating their effectiveness.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN KHARKIV: INSTITUTIONAL AND PROCEDURAL CONSTRAINTS
А. Avksentiev, (author) / V. Kyselova (author)
2018-08-23
oai:zenodo.org:1402506
Сучасне суспільство: політичні науки, соціологічні науки, культурологічні науки 1(15) 4-17
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