Interactivity and policy cycle within Electronic Participatory Budgeting: a comparative analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Iasulaitis, Sylvia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Nebot, Carmen Pineda, Silva, Elielson Carneiro da, Sampaio, Rafael Cardoso
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/80454
• topic: electronic participatory budgeting; interactivity; information and communication technology; participation; public budget management; public policy cycle.; presupuesto participativo digital; interactividad; tecnologías de la información y la comunicación; participación; gestión pública presupuestaria; ciclo de políticas públicas.; orçamento participativo digital; interatividade; participação; gestão pública orçamentária; ciclo de políticas públicas.

Participatory initiatives have increasingly used Information and Communication Technology, such as the Electronic Participatory Budgeting (ePB) to expand and improve participation. This research analyzes ePB platforms emphasizing interactivity aspects, as well as evaluating – in political terms – their functions regarding the dissemination of political information, sharing opinions, agenda-setting, and decision-making. This analysis examined the platforms’ tools types of interactivity based on two variables: the level of the receiver’s control and communication direction. The research identified ePB models and how the platforms’ functions are connected to each of them. The study also recognized in which phases of the decision-making process and the policy cycle the electronic participation is more likely to occur. Case studies in a comparative perspective were used to understand the variety of experiences of ePB.