Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

The present paper aims to determine what factors affect the success of participatory budgets in Polish cities and what factors affect the size of these budgets. The study covered all 66 cities with powiat rights from 2016 to 2021. A panel data model was used. The first research hypothesis states...

Bei der Finanzierung von Investitionen sind die Kommunen stark auf Fördermittel angewiesen. Diese werden über zahlreiche Programme verteilt, wobei die Länder eine maßgebliche Rolle spielen. Die empirische Forschung legt nahe, dass politische Verbindungen die Zuweisung dieser Mittel...

The study examined the specific features of using the instruments of financing the economic development of territorial communities on the example of Ukraine. Economic and statistical analysis methods were used to process the data, including the Wilcoxon signed-rank test for comparing growth...