Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process
The paper explores the role of the municipal councilors in the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia as well as their role in motivating citizen participation in the budgetary process in the Republic of Macedonia. We demonstrate that municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia employ various f...
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| description | The paper explores the role of the municipal councilors in the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia as well as their role in motivating citizen participation in the budgetary process in the Republic of Macedonia. We demonstrate that municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia employ various forms of participatory mechanisms in the process of public policies and budgets according to their context. There are vivid dissimilarities in terms of opportunities and scope of citizen participation as well as discrepancies of councilors capacity to facilitate this process when cross-matching information and data derived from small rural and bigger urban municipalities. It is evident that very little has been accomplished in terms of defining uniformed processes and developing systems related to the relations between councilors and local community. We identify barriers that are impediment to a genuine involvement of the councilors as mediators between the Mayor and the community in the local budgeting process. We argue that any policy intervention in this dimension ought to be tailor-made, hence every municipality has its specific features that ought to be taken into account when designing an intervention to address shortcomings of the processes and the systems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-67e3bd77fbf14dcfa39e60f582eb1fb92025-01-22T10:51:54ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Central European Public Administration Review2591-22402591-22592016-06-01142-310.17573/ipar.2016.2-3.03Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget ProcessMemet Memeti0Veli Kreci1Public Administration and Political Sciences Faculty, South East European University, Tetovo, the Republic of MacedoniaPublic Administration and Political Sciences Faculty, South East European University, Tetovo, the Republic of MacedoniaThe paper explores the role of the municipal councilors in the budget process in the Republic of Macedonia as well as their role in motivating citizen participation in the budgetary process in the Republic of Macedonia. We demonstrate that municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia employ various forms of participatory mechanisms in the process of public policies and budgets according to their context. There are vivid dissimilarities in terms of opportunities and scope of citizen participation as well as discrepancies of councilors capacity to facilitate this process when cross-matching information and data derived from small rural and bigger urban municipalities. It is evident that very little has been accomplished in terms of defining uniformed processes and developing systems related to the relations between councilors and local community. We identify barriers that are impediment to a genuine involvement of the councilors as mediators between the Mayor and the community in the local budgeting process. We argue that any policy intervention in this dimension ought to be tailor-made, hence every municipality has its specific features that ought to be taken into account when designing an intervention to address shortcomings of the processes and the systems.https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20452councilorscitizen participationbudget processlocal unitsRepublic of Macedonia |
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| title | Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process |
| title_full | Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process |
| title_fullStr | Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process |
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| title_short | Role of Municipal Council in Increasing Citizen Participation at the Local Budget Process |
| title_sort | role of municipal council in increasing citizen participation at the local budget process |
| topic | councilors citizen participation budget process local units Republic of Macedonia |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/CEPAR/article/view/20452 |
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