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Serving Multiple Masters? Public Managers’ Role Perceptions in Participatory Budgeting

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Participatory budgeting is fast becoming a popular form of public participation. Public managers play an important role in organizing and implementing participatory budgeting. Their role perceptions affect whether they use their discretion to limit or increase residents’ say in participatory processes. However, we know little about public managers’ role perceptions in participatory budgeting. In this study, we develop a typology of public managers’ role perceptions in participatory budgeting using a Q-methodological analysis of public managers in seven municipal participatory budgeting projects in Belgium. We find evidence for four distinct perspectives: a managerial, citizen-centered, technocratic, and skeptical perspective.

Source: Administration & Society

DOI: 10.1177/00953997211014476

Authors: Koen Migchelbrink, Steven Van de Walle

Institutions: Erasmus University Rotterdam, KU Leuven

Language: English

Topic: Public Policy and Administration Research

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: Empowering Citizens to TrAnsform European PubLic Administrations