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Determinants of combining budgetary innovations at the local level: experience from Slovakia
Martina Balážová*
Daniel Klimovský*
Daniel Klimovský
Affiliation: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; University of Pardubice, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Science and Research Centre, Pardubice, Czech Republic
0000-0002-0312-2842
Mária Murray Svidroňová*
Mária Murray Svidroňová
Affiliation: Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Economics, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
0000-0002-4414-479X
Juraj Nemec*
Juraj Nemec
Affiliation: Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Economics, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno, Czech Republic
0000-0002-5881-7422
Article | Year: 2022 | Pages: 355 - 383 | Volume: 46 | Issue: 3 Received: November 10, 2021 | Accepted: January 10, 2022 | Published online: August 29, 2022
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Category
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Determinant
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Authors
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Economic
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Better budget
allocation
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Švaljek, Rašić Bakarić and Sumpor (2019), Akyel,
Korkusuz-Polat and Arslankay (2012)
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Budgetary process
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Tanase (2013), Callahan (2002)
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Efficiency
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Sintomer et al. (2010), Džinić, Murray Svidroňová and Markowska-Bzducha (2016)
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Social
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Social justice,
gender mainstreaming
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Sintomer, Röcke and Herzberg (2016),
Baiocchi and Ganuza (2014), Lüchmann (2017)
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Citizen
empowerment, socio-economic development, culture
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Saguin (2018), Wampler and Touchton (2019),
Röcke (2014), Talpin
(2012)
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Political
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Uncertainty of
decision-making
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Baranowski (2020), Bardovič and Gašparík
(2021), Cho, Jérôme and Maurice (2021), Klimovský et al. (2021), Popławski
(2020)
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Level of
administration maturity, level of political decentralisation
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Beuermann and Amelina (2018)
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Voter turnout,
direct democracy, public/citizen participation
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Kukučková and Bakoš (2019), Freitag and
Stadelmann-Steffen (2010), Šabović, Milosavljević
and Benković (2021), Kukučková and Poláchová (2021)
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Democratic
change, good governance
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Cabannes and Lipietz (2018), Baiocchi
(2001)
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Re-election of
the party or the mayor, political affiliation of the mayor
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Spada (2009), Wampler and Avritzer (2005),
Klimovsky and Murray Svidronova (2021),
Klun and Benčina (2021)
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Transparency of
political decisions, transparency of public resources
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Jacobi (1999), Carroll et al. (2016),
Cabannes and Lipietz (2018)
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Source: Authors’ elaboration.
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Type of municipality
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Total number
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Total number with PB experience
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Share of those with PB experience (%)
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Regional
centres
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9
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3
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33
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District
centres
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79
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28
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35
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Other
municipalities
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2,802
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29
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1
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Source: Authors' elaboration.
Source: Authors' elaboration.
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Type of municipality
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Participatory budgets not explicitly specified in local public budgets
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Number
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Share (%)
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Regional centres
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1
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6
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District centres
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6
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38
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Other
municipalities
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9
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56
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Total
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16
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100
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Source: Authors' elaboration.
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Year
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PB first-timers
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PB not specified in local public budgets
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PB specified in local public budgets
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Percentage of PB incorporation
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2018
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3
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3
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100
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2019
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16
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7
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9
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56
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2020
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15
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9
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6
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40
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2021
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5
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5
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0
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0
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Source: Authors' elaboration.
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Length of period of
PB (years)
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TIS ranking
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2014
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2016
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2018
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Length of period of PB (years)
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Pearson Correlation
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1
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0.317
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0.450**
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0.653**
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Sig. (2-tailed)
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0.068
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0.008
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0.000
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N
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53
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34
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34
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34
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Source: Authors' elaboration.
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Length of period of PB
(years)
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Affiliation
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Experience of
the mayor
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Implementation of PB in 2020
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of the mayor (year of
introduction)
- independent
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of the mayor (2018)
- independent
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of the majority of
councillors (year of introduction)
- independent
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of the majority of
councillors (2018)
- independent
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In year of introduction
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2018
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Length of period of PB (years)
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Correlation Coefficient
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1.000
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-0.032
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0.034
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-0.191
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-0.101
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0.035
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0.453*
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0.023
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Sig.
(2-tailed)
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0.819
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0.879
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0.171
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0.648
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0.806
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0.030
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0.878
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N
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53
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53
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23
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53
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23
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53
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23
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47
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