Budżet obywatelski Gorlic jako realizacja idei budżetu partycypacyjnego w polskim systemie prawnym

Abstract

A participatory budget is also called a civic budget. Such budgets allow a city’s residents to allocate the pool of funds by voting on previously submitted projects. This is certainly one of the most interesting forms of participation, involving significant groups of citizens in active social life: through social discussions, they create projects that can develop and serve the local community. Civic budgets are gaining considerable popularity in Poland and, therefore, are becoming more and more controversial. The question is, to what extent are civic budgets actually civic? This paper presents the theoretical assumptions of the civic budget, and then conducts an analysis of the civic budget of the city of Gorlice.