CZECH EXPERIENCE OF CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Citizen Participation in Local Government Budgeting

Citizen participation in the governance process is widely encouraged by academics and professional organizations and is a popular conference topic. Key public policy decisions are made during the public budgeting process, so this would appear to be an important opportunity for meaningful citizen participation. Yet little is known about how and when citizens are involved in the budget process.1

Regulation Room: Getting "More, Better" Civic Participation in Complex Government Policymaking

Welfare and Citizenship: the Effects of Government Assistance on Young Adults' Civic Participation.

Recent scholarship and public discourse highlight an apparent waning of civic engagement in the United States. Although the welfare state is generally thought to support democracy by reducing economic inequality, it may paradoxically contribute to political disempowerment of some groups. We examine the effects of state interventions on civic participation among young adults, hypothesizing that ...

E-Participation, Transparency, and Trust in Local Government

Th is article examines the relationship between electronic participation (e-participation) and trust in local government by focusing on fi ve dimensions of the e-participation process: (1) satisfaction with e-participation applications, (2) satisfaction with government responsiveness to e-participants, (3) e-participants’ development through the participation, (4) perceived infl uence on decisi...

Political Participation in Local Government: Social and Institutional Contexts

for providing the survey data for this study. I would also like to thank Craig Donahue for compiling the city and county demographic measures used in the analyses.