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Dialogue for Development – about Civic Budgets
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In the context of the crisis that representative democracy and especially neoliberal concepts of the functioning of local government authorities are experiencing in the world and in Europe, the tools of participatory democracy appear as an alternative that enables the growth of certain ideas that are gaining popularity- the so-called right to the city. The willingness to participate in the responsibility for co-governing and organising the space in which we live is reported by increasingly stronger informal organisations of residents called urban movements. They become the initiators of new ways of managing cities. One of such ideas is the so-called participatory budget, for the first time put into practice in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. The unquestionable success of these activities caused the popularity of this tool in the world. First as a curiosity, and then a specific fashion it also appeared in Poland. Unfortunately, in its implementation in our country the most important element of participation, that is civil dialogue, seems to have been forgotten. This often leads to negative social phenomena. Despite this, from the beginning of 2018, the participatory budget was introduced into the legal order of our country as an obligatory way of operating the largest Polish cities.
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civic budget ; democracy ; dialogue ; participation ; right to the city budżet obywatelski ; demokracja ; dialog ; partycypacja ; prawo do miasta
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