Local governence jako mechanizm współrządzenia w samorządzie terytorialnym może stać się skutecznym narzędziem wspierającym efektywność i jakość procesów decyzyjnych. Za jego jedną z form może być uznany budżet obywatelski (partycypacyjny), który od kilku lat jest wdrażany w Polsce. Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie budżetu obywatelskiego na przykładzie miasta Katowice pod kątem wpływu, jaki ma on na podnoszenie efektywności zarządzania gminą. Czy dzięki jego zastosowaniu rozwija się świadomość i zaangażowanie mieszkańców w sprawy lokalne. W artykule przedstawiono oprócz danych ogólnodostępnych wyniki badań własnych autora, przeprowadzanych w jednej z dzielnic miasta.

Even though participatory budgets have rather short history in Poland criticism of its unwanted side effects have pushed some municipal authorities towards quick reforms of their initial visions. Most of them have decided just for small adjustments, but some have tried to be innovative and have reformed the whole mechanism. In this article, author attempts to take a closer look at consequences that accompany changes aimed at more quality of the whole procedure. The article aims to examine how more deliberation affects legitimization of participatory budgets. It is also an attempt to find out whether it brings expected outcomes within quality and profile of selected projects. Finally, we may learn here how people deal with more advance procedures. The analysis should serve anyone who is willing to search for new solutions among direct democracy tools in Poland.

The participatory budget is an important element of the catalogue of tools for involving residents in the local decision-making. The positive effects of involving many citizens in the decision-making process slowly bear fruit in attempts to transfer p.b. into other spheres. This article analyses how these well-known patterns are adapted to new conditions – at universities. Several of them decided to introduce their own participatory budget. A comparative analysis of the local government model and solutions adopted by three universities provides the answer to this question. The hypothesis assumes that the civic budget at universities and polytechnics is, for the most part, a modification of the model used in cities with district status. As shown, the municipal participatory budget is a proven basis for creating its own regulations. However, the available schemes should be modified.

The Constitutionally Determined Scope of Jurisdiction of Regional Chambers of Auditors over Participatory Budget Resolutions

The relevance of the constitutional category of supervision over the activities of local self-governments implies the necessity to study the relatively new institution of public participation, which is the civic budget (synonymously participatory budget). On the scientific ground, it is worth considering whether the legislative changes made in 2018, creating a statutory and – in principle – obligatory status for it, have affected the supervision of legal acts undertaken by authorised bodies of the local self-government within the framework of the civic budget procedure. An important and practically significant research problem is therefore which of the constitutional supervisory bodies is materially competent to undertake supervisory actions over legal acts in the field of participatory budget. Its resolution, based on a dogmatic method, is the main objective of this study.