Does Participatory Budgeting Bolster Voter Turnout in Elections ? The Case of the Czech Republic
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14560/19:00111406
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0016" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0016</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0016" target="_blank" >10.2478/nispa-2019-0016</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does Participatory Budgeting Bolster Voter Turnout in Elections ? The Case of the Czech Republic
Original language description
Though participatory budgeting (PB) is often discussed as a tool to bolster the level of civic participation and the quality of democracy, empirical research on the subject offers ambiguous results. In the Czech Republic, PB was introduced 5 years ago, and the number of implemented PBs has since increased substantially. The purpose of this article is to evaluate whether the use of PB is associated with higher voter turnout in municipal and parliamentary elections. Voter turnout in Czech municipalities that implemented PB is analyzed and compared with the control group of municipalities without PB. Considered by type of election, we found that the impact of PB use on voter turnout is higher for local elections than it is for national elections, which is in line with our assumptions. However, our results were significant for Prague districts only. Participatory budgeting could increase voter turnout in local election, but there are other factors that must be considered.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
ISSN
1337-9038
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
109-129
UT code for WoS article
000502563300005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85077126227