Research on public managers' attitudes towards local public participation has expanded
rapidly during the past two decades. Studies show that public managers' attitudes towards …

A systematic review of the public administration literature on public engagement and
participation is conducted with the expressed intent to develop an actionable evidence base …

Research on citizen participation has noted a tension between fostering an inclusive policy‐
making process and simultaneously maintaining a competent pool of participating citizens …

Due to the intertwined nature of private and public interests, local governments tend to use
collaborative partnerships involving entrepreneurs to promote regional entrepreneurship …

Governance normally takes place within an organizational setting. It follows that, in order to
understand and explain governance, organizational variables have to be taken into …

ABSTRACT In the United States participatory budgeting (PB) is a relatively new and
innovative approach to municipal budgeting that has implications for improving the role of …

This article investigates whether citizens' evaluations of service performance are related to
archival measures of performance, and how institutional context shapes this relationship …

While agency theory predicts mixed impacts of agency autonomy on organizational
performance conditioned by result-based controls, stewardship theory predicts positive …

Over the last decade, expanded participation among stakeholders has been increasingly
adopted by both public and private organizations in different domains. This approach is …

According to the meta-analysis on performance budgeting theory and practice, the
relationship between citizens' role and performance-based budgeting is an important but …