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 … participation as well as discrepancies of councilors capacity to facilitate this process when cross-matching information and data …

the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is … actually a growing trend in local government finances or, after the initial euphoria resulting from participation, society … public policies implemented. It is expected that the conducted research will allow us to evaluate the participatory budget …

votermedia can be seen as an extension of PAPB-style voting, to further empower citizens to determine the size of each budget …. This would ideally include a continuous-time blog contest with online voting that starts at the beginning of the budget …

In this paper, the authors examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent … association between these budget variables and the actual election results. …

In the wake of the most recent U.S. recession, both New York State and New Jersey have faced multibillion-dollar budget … - particularly from high-wage earners in the finance sector - has exacerbated revenue shortfalls. To close their budget gaps, New … might take steps to avert such budget quandaries by establishing "rainy day" funds or restructuring taxes to make them less …

expenditures. States with strict balanced budget requirements must restore fiscal balance faster than those without, leading to … occur disproportionately in areas with significant year-to-year variation (e.g., the capital portion of the budget and …