How Direct Citizen Participation Affects the Local Government Financial Condition: A Case of Participatory Budgeting in South Korea

IF 1.7 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Hyunggun Park, Sungil Yoon, B. Shine Cho
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In theory, direct citizen engagement in budgeting helps local governments reflect the citizens’ budget preferences more precisely, thereby enhancing citizen-government communication. However, the efficacies of budget participation remain ambiguous considering both its democratic values and the cost of deliberation. In this study, we test how direct citizen participation by means of participatory budgeting (PB) affects the financial condition of local governments. We use a sophisticated concept of financial condition that encompasses various abilities of local government. We measure the degree of citizen participation as the availability of institutional mechanisms associated with different levels of inclusiveness and authorities determined by South Korean local government ordinances of formal budget participation. Our empirical analysis based on South Korean local governments’ data between 2012 and 2019 reveals that a PB institution with higher participation level further worsens the local financial condition. The adverse effects are mostly identified in the mid-term and long-term financial conditions, whereas the short-term financial condition remains unaffected. The findings imply that direct participation in theory corrects mismatches between bureaucratic and citizen priorities, but, in practice, the citizens may inappropriately direct mid- and long-term oriented public investment and debt management.
公民直接参与如何影响地方政府财政状况:以韩国参与式预算为例
从理论上讲,公民直接参与预算有助于地方政府更准确地反映公民的预算偏好,从而加强公民与政府的沟通。然而,考虑到预算参与的民主价值和审议成本,其效果仍然模糊不清。在本研究中,我们检验了公民通过参与式预算(PB)的直接参与对地方政府财政状况的影响。我们使用了一个复杂的财务状况概念,它包含了地方政府的各种能力。我们将公民参与的程度衡量为与韩国地方政府正式预算参与条例所确定的不同程度的包容性和权威相关的制度机制的可用性。基于2012 - 2019年韩国地方政府数据的实证分析表明,参与率越高的PB机构,地方财政状况越恶化。不利影响主要体现在中期和长期财务状况,而短期财务状况不受影响。研究结果表明,直接参与在理论上纠正了官僚和公民优先事项之间的不匹配,但在实践中,公民可能不恰当地指导中长期导向的公共投资和债务管理。
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Javnost-The Public
Javnost-The Public COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
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