El paper dels factors locals en l'adopció dels pressupostos participatius: el cas de la Catalunya rural

Girabal Tallada, Bernat

El paper dels factors locals en l'adopció dels pressupostos participatius: el cas de la Catalunya rural

Citation

Girabal Tallada, B. El paper dels factors locals en l'adopció dels pressupostos participatius: el cas de la Catalunya rural. 2021. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48255

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Abstract

Participative budgets have existed in Catalonia for two decades, but in the case of the country's rural areas this initiative has arrived mostly over the last five years and is still in the phase of expansion. If the studies that deal with participatory budgets in Catalonia are rather scarce, the academic output focused on this phenomenon in its rural areas is null. Considering this gap, this research catalogues and briefly describes the municipalities that have adopted this policy of democratic deepening at some point in rural Catalonia. Through the data collected and using quantitative techniques, this paper analyses the local context factors (political, social, demographic, regional and economic) that make the adoption of participatory budgets more likely, an aspect scarcely addressed in literature on this participatory policy at global level. The results point out that the probability is greater in the most populous municipalities, in those where left-wing parties govern and also in those where the local government have more economic resources. Otherwise, contrary to initial intuitions and previous research, social capital and public interest in municipal politics seem to have no relation with the probability of adoption of a participatory budget.