Article ID: | iaor2003864 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 233 |
End Page Number: | 272 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Journal: | Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management |
Authors: | Miller Gerald J., Evers Lyn |
Keywords: | management, planning, government |
This paper reviews the literature concerning when and in what way citizen participation can have an impact on budgeting. The first part of the paper conceptualizes, through the literature, five budgeting models, each having both problems and solutions for citizen involvement. The second section of the paper explores intervention designs that can be constructive in dealing with the larger problems connecting budgeting and citizen participation. The paper, therefore, seeks to determine where participation in budgeting can have an impact on citizen anger, estrangement, distrust and pessimism.