Participatory Budgeting and Local Government in a Vertical Society: A Japanese Story
Participatory Budgeting and Local Government in a Vertical Society: A Japanese Story
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垂直社会中的参与式预算和地方政府：日本的故事
DOI：
10.1177/0020852317721335
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发表时间：
2019
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Pawan
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作者：
Uddin;Shahzad.;Mori;Yuji. and Adhikari;Pawan
本文考察了日本地方政府参与式预算的一个案例。这篇文章展示了文化价值观如何与预算编制阶段（在我们的案例中，是预算编制的共同规划或咨询阶段）相互作用。我们发现三个关键的利益相关者-议员，行政人员和公民-有不同程度的参与预算过程。虽然直接的公民参与一直是有限的和具有挑战性的，我们发现，地方协会和议员作为说客工作，以影响预算不那么公开。由市长领导的预算办公室起着主导作用。本文有助于更广泛的辩论，地方政府的改革和他们的翻译成不同的背景下的问题，这样一个线性采用的知识，从文化的perspectives.Points for professionersWe提供谨慎的政策制定者批发采用的知识从一个上下文中的其他。就日本而言，我们敦促他们利用集团行为的优势。因此，必须强调与协会、社区和各种利益集团的接触，而不是简单地依赖与公民的直接而遥远的沟通。在向地方当局理事会提出预算提案之前，可以通过各部门的政治参与-也许是通过政党。这将为议员提供更多的空间，使他们的情况下，公民，并保持和谐（wa）内部和政治团体之间。
This article examines a case of participatory budgeting in Japanese local government. The article demonstrates how cultural values interact with stages of budgeting (in our case, the co-planning or consultation phase of budgeting). We find three key stakeholders – councillors, administrators and citizens – have varying degree of participation in the budget process. While direct citizen participation has been limited and challenging, we find that local associations and councillors work as lobbyists to influence the budget less publicly. The budget desk led by the mayor plays the dominant role. This article contributes to the broader debate on local government reforms and their translation into varied contexts by problematising such a linear adoption of knowledge from a cultural perspective.Points for practitionersWe offer caution to policymakers about the wholesale adoption of knowledge from one context to the other. In the Japanese context, we urge them to draw on the strengths of grouping behaviour. Hence, engagement with associations, communities and various interests groups must be emphasised instead of simply relying on direct yet remote communications to citizens. Political engagements by the departments – perhaps via political parties – can be adopted before budget proposals are made to the local authority council. This will allow more space for the councillors to make their case to citizens, and maintain harmony (wa) within and between political groups.