Outsourcing Participatory Budgeting: An Analytical Perspective from a Mediator's Everyday Action
| Autor: | Fang-Yu Tsui, 崔芳瑜 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 Participatory budgeting (PB) is a tool of governance that emphasizes the deepening of democracy through public-private partnerships. In the context of Taiwan, local governments are mainly implementing PB with an "outsourcing" model. Under this model, the government and the "mediators" engage in a contractual partnership to implement a PB project. This article attempts to explore the everyday actions of the "mediators" to shed light on the nuance of the social relation and contradictions resulted from such partnership and their effect on the project: What kind of democratic value do the mediators hold? Under the outsourcing model, what kind of conflicts have the mediators encounter with the public sector, citizens, and local politicians? Furthermore, how do the mediator choose to respond to the conflicts? How do the choices of the mediators affect the final implementation of PB? Lastly, how would PB’s development in Taiwan be affected by these interactions? The author is one such mediator in the Kaohsiung PB. Data was collected during the planning period of the project through participatory observation and further supplemented by interviews. Rooted in the theories of frame and triangular interaction, this article aims to develop a theoretical framework of "institutional logic-actor interaction" to capture the interaction process between mediators and actors from the public sector, civil society, and political society in order to analyze the structural dilemma mediators face. The study finds that the outsourcing model presents structural problems inherent to the public sector; it is difficult for a PB project under outsourcing model to garner the political, administrative, and temporal resources needed for PB to be successful, significantly compromising the democratic values PB originally intended. The author points out that the outsourcing model makes PB project a mere formality, not only deviating from the substantive purpose of social empowerment, but also restraining mediators from their commitment to mobilize the community. Keywords: participatory budgeting, outsourcing model, mediator, public sector, civil society |
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