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Wiedza i aktywność seniorów w zakresie budżetu partycypacyjnego
Knowledge and activity of seniors for participating budget

Author(s): Mirosław Sołtysiak
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
Keywords: participatory democracy; participatory budgeting; social opinions

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of a survey conducted on a group of generation 55+ Poles living in thecity of Rzeszow concerning their knowledge of issues related to participatory budgets and the state of theiractivity in this area. At the beginning an assessment of the knowledge of the idea of participatory budgetwas presented. In the following, the residents’ participation in the participatory budget was assessed and thefactors influencing this activity were analyzed.Conducted examinations allowed to state that the majority of respondents knows as well as positivelyis assessing the idea of participatory budget. Unfortunately the level of the knowledge of respondents aboutprinciples of his functioning is low. To it sources from which they obtained information about participatorybudget have a direct effect. The majority of respondents is keeping the passive posture towards workson participatory budget. They are confining themselves only for giving back the vote for notified projects

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 69-80
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish