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Sustainability aspects of participatory budgeting at the municipal level in Slovenia
Nejc Brezovar* 
Tatjana Stanimirović*
Tatjana Stanimirović
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Public Administration, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Article | Year: 2022 | Pages: 569 - 589 | Volume: 46 | Issue: 4 Received: April 2, 2022 | Accepted: August 30, 2022 | Published online: December 7, 2022
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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Number of municipalities |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
13 |
20 |
27 |
Categories of observation |
Number of municipalities
(of 212 total) |
PB mechanisms for proposals
(some municipalities had multiple choices) |
Form via e-mail |
24 |
E-form |
11 |
Form via ordinary mail |
7 |
Form on site |
25 |
PB used for part or whole of the municipality area |
More than 2 areas |
26 |
1 area |
4 |
Voting practice (some municipalities had multiple choices) |
Ballot on site |
20 |
Ballot by e-mail |
4 |
Ballot by ordinary mail |
2 |
Ballot in e-form |
13 |
SMS |
1 |
Voting practice during the Covid-19 epidemic |
In 2020 and 2021 voting took place |
13 |
Source: Authors (2022).
Nature of PB project |
Environmental |
Recreational
infrastructure |
Public
infrastructure |
Promotion of tourism
and culture |
Number of and percent of chosen
PB projects (of 518 total) |
45 8.7% |
146 28.2% |
236 45.6% |
91 17.5% |
Table 1Periodical dynamics of participatory budgeting in Slovenian municipalities DISPLAY Table
Table 2Participatory budgeting dimensions in Slovenia DISPLAY Table
Table 3Most frequently planned or carried out projects in municipalities with implemented participatory budgeting practices DISPLAY Table
* The authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their very useful comments and suggestions.
1 The questionnaire was prepared and the answers analyzed by the NGO ‟Danes je nov dan”, who are very active in the field of PB. They also adapted and upgraded for Slovenian needs an IT tool called Consul (it is an open source platform for the implementation of participatory budgeting.
2 Municipalities of Ajdovščina, Bohinj, Brežice, Dol pri Ljubljani, Dravograd, Hrastnik, Hrpelje-Kozina, Komen, Izola, Koper, Kranjska gora, Krško, Logatec, Lovrenc na Pohorju, Maribor, Medvode, Nova gorica, Postojna, Radovljica, Renče – Vogrsko, Ruše, Semič, Sevnica, Slovenske konjice, Sveta Trojica v slovenskih goricah, Šentilj, Škofja loka, Tolmin. One municipality is not on the list although they carried out a PB in only one of its districts – municipality of Laško and municipality of Tolmin, which started with PB in 2021 but project will be carried out in 2022 and is aimed at youth projects.
3 More answers of municipal representatives can be found on the home page of NGO "Mešanec", who made the ex post analysis.
4 Municipalities and the number of projects carried out via PB mechanisms in 2021/2022: Ajdovščina (33),
Bohinj (5), Brežice (14), Dol pri Ljubljani (11), Dravograd (19), Hrastnik (10), Hrpelje-Kozina (9), Komen
(NDA), Izola (9), Koper (70), Kranjska gora (NDA), Krško (26), Logatec (10), Lovrenc na Pohorju (18),
Maribor (44), Medvode (32), Nova gorica (33), Postojna (21), Radovljica (25), Renče – Vogrsko (NDA),
Ruše (2), Semič (14), Sevnica (22), Slovenske konjice (29), Sveta Trojica v slovenskih goricah (NDA), Šentilj (28), Škofja loka (34).
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