Citizen participation in public budgeting processes has been widely advocated by both
theorists and practitioners of public administration. Yet there is less agreement on when the …

We propose and test a new methodology to assess the public's criminal justice spending
priorities. Respondents are asked to trade‐off alternative crime prevention and control …

Achieving public participation often is a goal for public budgeting entities, but it is difficult to
accomplish in practice. This study examines three questions: How do public representatives …

There is an information gap between citizens and their governments when it comes to
government finances. The inherent complexity of fiscal policy makes it exceedingly difficult …

This article considers the recent emphasis on the importance and value of citizen
participation, involvement, and engagement in local government and how active …

Much of the current US academic literature on participatory budgeting is preoccupied with
direct citizen involvement in budget formulation, reflecting a particular normative theory of …

Scholars continue to stress the need to understand the relationship between public value
and citizens to shift traditional public administration to a public-value-driven form of …

Over the past decade, crowdfunding has emerged as a legitimate, albeit niche, resource for
public service delivery. Predicated on utilizing the resources of the crowd to address public …

Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding
source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other …

Purpose The goal of this exploratory study was to investigate if, when asked to state their
preferences for the allocation of public monies toward broad governmental functions …