e-Participatory Budgeting as an initiative of e-requests: prospecting for leading cases and reflections on e-Participation

• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Rafael Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/64709
• topic: e-participatory budget; e-democracy; e-participation; e-governance.; presupuestos participativos electrónicos; democracia digital; e-participación; gobernanza electrónica.; orçamentos participativos digitais; democracia digital; e-participação; governança eletrônica.

This article goes prospecting for some of the main experiences of using e-participatory budgeting (e-PB) that occurred between 2001 and 2013. We used the snowball technique to map out these occurrences. The aim of the study was to contribute to a better understanding of how such e-PB relates to other e-participation projects, in terms of participants, activities and the possibility of using mixed methods (online/on location) to mitigate any digital exclusion. The results indicated that there were 170 e-PB initiatives operating in 101 locations, of which 139 were mixed initiatives. Contrary to what is suggested in literature on the subject, most of these e-PBs do not address decision-making processes directly, but instead deal with the suggestions and requests of citizens (e-requests). The conclusion was then that the addition of ICTs to the e-PBs did not necessarily lead to an improvement in such processes. Nevertheless, one can argue that e-PBs can indeed offer new avenues and questions of relevance to the study of e-participation.