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Who Participates? Participatory Budgeting & Power in Taipei City（公民誰參與？參與式預算在台北市的權力邏輯）

摘要：

In Taiwan, Increasing the representation of the public in governments is the recent trend of reinventing government. Participatory budgeting (PB), which is an important mechanism in local budget process, is advocated by practitioners and scholars to inject citizen input into a budget process. Many current studies are the topic of participatory budgeting, but rare political influences and factors are analyzed in the usage of it. The study assets that the development of participatory budgeting would limit because of potential political factors, including the concern of power relations between citizens and local governments in budget policy, politicaloriented budget process, the conflict of budget decision-making model between top-down approach and bottom-up approach, political thoughts and motives to budget policy, and potential budget actors. Participatory budgeting is considered a suitable tool for supporting and promoting citizen engagement in government work. Previous studies of PB have deeply investigated its design and effects, but paid little attention to the underlying logics of adopting and implementing PB. The purpose of this paper is to, accordingly, investigate the development over time of the institutional logics of PB and attempt to explain their effect on PB.

在台灣，增加政府代表性是一股政府再造的新趨勢。參與式預算（Participatory Budgeting）則是重塑地方預算權力過程中的一個重要設計，這是由草根工作者和學者來提倡將公民參與加入預算過程。目前有許多經驗性研究都是參與式預算的主題性分析，但比較少使用在分析政治影響和其因素。參與式預算的編制因潛在的政治因素而受到限制，包括公民與地方政府在預算政策中的權力關係、政治導向的預算過程、由上而下的慣性考量與預算決策模型之間的衝突。由下而上的動力與預算政策的政治計算和動機，以及如何邀請潛在的公共預算參與者。參與式預算在國外被認為是促進公民參與政府行為的合適工具。過去文獻對參與式預算的研究著重在制度設計和效果，但較少討論為何採用和實施過程的權力邏輯。因此，本文的目的是擬透過台北市案例，進一步觀察參與式預算的制度邏輯是否改變地方政治的權力操作，並試圖解釋它們對參與式預算的影響。