地方治理中的参与式预算——关于浙江温岭市新河镇改革的案例研究

参与式预算是一种公民直接参与决策的治理形式,是参与式民主的一种形式.实施参与式预算,能够促进公共学习和激发公民的权利意识,通过改善政策和资源分配,实现社会公正,以及改革行政机构.在这种直接的、自愿和普遍参与的民主过程中,人们能够平等讨论和决定公共预算、各项政策以及政府管理.在充分吸收国外参与式预算实践的基础上,浙江省新河镇基于国家既有的法律框架,以及民主恳谈的制度平台,开始实施预算改革,扩大了公民参与政府决策的广度和深度,深刻地影响着中国基层民主的发展.在理论分析和实地调查的基础上,运用比较分析的方法,初步探讨了参与式预算在中国地方治理中的兴起与发展,力图为中国地方治理,以及基层民主政治建设提供新的观察视角.

Participatory Budget in China Local Governance——On the Case of Budget Reform from Xiuhe Town, Zhejiang Province

Participatory budget is a kind of governance which encourages citizens to participate in decision-making and is a form of participatory democracy. Enacting participatory budget can promote public learning and positive citizenship and then achieve social justice and administration reform through transparent decision-making process and resources distribution. During the process of the direct, volunteer and comprehensive participation, all participants can discuss and decide public budget, policies and administration. From 2005, based on the law framework and democratic consultant designs, Xinhe Town in Zhejiang Province began to reform the public budget. Budget reform in Xinhe Town not only enlarged the participation at the local level, but also generated great influences on both Local and Central democracy reforms. In this article, field investigation and comparative method are used to analyze the participatory budget in Zhejiang Province, and provide new perspective for local democracy in China.