Budget starting position matters: A “field‐in‐lab” experiment testing simulation engagement and budgetary preferences

IF 0.9 Q4 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Budgeting and Finance Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI:10.1111/pbaf.12351

Zach Mohr, Whitney Afonso

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Abstract

Abstract Budget scholars have long theorized the impact of citizen engagement in the budget process. However, there is a void in the literature on modern types of engagement such as online budget simulations. Basic questions like what governments can do to increase the level of engagement and what effects such changes have on outcomes remain unanswered. Using a behavioral public budget and finance framework, we designed and tested an experiment with a local government budget simulation and varied the starting condition between balance, surplus, and deficit to assess the impact of starting condition on relevant outcomes of engagement and budgetary preferences. Results show that two measures of engagement and most budget preferences were influenced by the starting condition. Field‐in‐lab experiments like this one have the potential to further develop behavioral budget theory and be used to test online government platforms that are used by governments for engagement and many other purposes.

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预算起始位置问题:“现场-实验室”实验测试模拟参与和预算偏好

预算学者长期以来一直将公民参与对预算过程的影响理论化。然而，关于在线预算模拟等现代参与类型的文献中存在空白。政府可以做些什么来提高参与水平，以及这些变化对结果有什么影响等基本问题仍然没有答案。利用行为公共预算和财政框架，我们设计并测试了一个地方政府预算模拟实验，并在平衡、盈余和赤字之间改变起始条件，以评估起始条件对参与和预算偏好的相关结果的影响。结果表明，两项参与指标和大多数预算偏好受到起始条件的影响。像这样的现场实验室实验有可能进一步发展行为预算理论，并用于测试政府用于参与和许多其他目的的在线政府平台。

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Public Budgeting and Finance PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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14.30%

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