The Participation of Citizens in the Budgetary Process: The Participatory Budgeting Project in the City of Pazin

Abstract

Ovaj diplomski rad bavi se praksom participativnog budžetiranja koja potječe iz Porto Alegrea. Participativno se budžetiranje nakon 2000. godine razvilo i na području Europe, pa tako i u Republici Hrvatskoj. Stoga ovaj rad proučava prvi primjer participativnog budžetiranja u Hrvatskoj – Grad Pazin. Cilj istraživanja bio je prikazati kako se mijenjao broj sudionika u javnim raspravama tijekom tri godine provedbe projekta u Pazinu. Kako bi se pokazala opravdanost početne hipoteze o porastu broja sudionika, korištene su metode analize dokumenata i pretraživanja Interneta. Istraživanje je pokazalo kako se broj sudionika u trećoj godini provedbe projekta, smanjio u odnosu na prvu godinu. Kako bi u narednim godinama došlo do pozitivne promjene, potrebno je poboljšati promidžbu projekta, ali i povećati proračunska davanja za provedbu participativnog budžetiranja.This thesis deals the practice of participatory budgeting that originates from Porto Alegre. After 2000, participatory budgeting was developed in Europe, as well as in Republic of Croatia. Therefore, the first case of participatory budgeting in Croatia – City of Pazin was studied in this thesis. The aim of research was to indicate how the number of participants in public debates was changed during three years of the project implementation in Pazin. The methods used to show the justification of the initial hypothesis were document analysis and Internet research. During the research was discovered, that the number of participants in the third year of implementation of the project, decreased compared to the first year. In order to achieve positive changes in the upcoming years, it is necessary to improve the project promotion, and to increase budgetary allocations to implement participatory budgeting project