This paper proposes a model for participatory budgeting under uncertainty based on stochastic programming, and suggests that this approach seems lacking, especially in times of crisis when public funding suffers high volatility and widespread cuts.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 2016-02-16 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Participatory budgeting.
TL;DR: A fuzzy technique is proposed for order preference based on the similarity to an ideal solution for the personalized ranking of projects in a participatory budget (PB) based on an empirical example from a Poznan PB project ( Poland).
TL;DR: In this paper, a model to support governmental local managers in public budget optimization, based on an integration of methods, is presented to fill the gap related to weights definition in problematic, commonly performed subjective assessments.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse participatory budgeting in two Indonesian indigenous communities, illustrating how the World Bank sponsored neo-liberal model of "technical rational" PB is overshadowed by local values and wisdom, consisting of sophisticated, pre-existing rationalities for public participation.
TL;DR: A negotiation support system (NSS) with a theoretical modeling that considers the aspects of human personality and negotiator’s behavior to assist the decision-making of public managers and stakeholders in democratic bargaining processes and support social-efficient outcomes is introduced.
TL;DR: The aim was to identify techniques that could be reasonably used to elicit public views on the provision of healthcare and to make recommendations regarding the use of methods and future research.
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated series of operations research studies directed toward improvement in such scheduling methods is presented. But the focus is on essentials of the mathematical model and other phases of the OR studies are brought in only as required.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe participatory budgeting in Brazil and elsewhere as a significant area of innovation in democracy and local development, and they draw on the experience of 25 municipalities in Latin America and Europe, selected based on the diversity of their participatorial budgeting experience and their degree of innovation.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the mathematical properties of chance constrained programming problems where the restriction is on the joint probability of a multivariate random event and explore whether the resultant problem meets the concavity assumption.
The paper does not provide information on how citizen participatory budgeting can specifically help people in crisis. The paper proposes a model for participatory budgeting under uncertainty, but does not discuss its application in crisis situations.