Abstract
This paper deals with the issue of participatory budgeting as one of the newer tools of political participation. Its aim is to characterise the current situation in the Slovak Republic at two levels of territorial self-administration (self-governing regions and municipalities). To reach defined aims, it monitors the existence of legislative settings at the national level, the existence of individual settings at the observed levels and subsequently the practical application of the participatory budgeting itself. Procedures associated with the study of documents are used in article; the obtained data are summarized, described and compared mutually. In addition to laws and regulations issued by self-government units, the source of data is also the regional and local self-government units’ official websites. In the absence of one universal definition of the participatory budgeting rules at the national level, the findings have shown that there are relatively extensive conditions for implementing participatory budgeting with its specific settings defined by self-administrations. In Slovakia, participatory budgeting is only gradually introduced into the internal rules, which reflects a relatively small number of municipalities or self-governing regions, which ultimately use it effectively.
Highlights
Political participation currently takes an essential place in democratic societies
This article focuses on a relatively new tool of political participation, which is gradually getting into the consciousness of people, in particular – the participatory budgeting
We focus on eight self-governing regions, eight regional cities, city districts in the capital of Bratislava and Košice and other municipalities with city status
Summary
Political participation currently takes an essential place in democratic societies. Without its existence, the conditions would not be created to legitimize the exercise of the political power of the people’s representatives, which is ensured by the election, and at the same time, the decisions made would not be the result of the will of the people and responsive to the specific demands of the population. The aim of this paper is to characterize the legislative framework associated with the existence of a participatory budget in the Slovak Republic, to identify selected specifics of the settings of participatory budgets within two levels of territorial self-administration and to illustrate its functioning in specific cities and self-governing regions. In this context, the research questions are defined: What legislation exists in connection with Slovakia’s participatory budget? The Trenčín self-governing region is monitored separately due to its most comprehensive implementation of the participatory budget at this level. Differences in its implementation concerning individual self-governing regions are observed for cities
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