"MIPAR" Report The participation of the citizens of Milan to participatory budget activities through the “MilanoPartecipa†platform
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https://doi.org/10.14600/irpps_wps.118.2020Keywords:
active citizenship, participatory budgeting, urban democracy, city, participationAbstract
This report analyzes the data collected through an online survey for the participants of the Participatory Budget (PB) organized by the City of Milan. The aims of the survey are: 1. to reconstruct the socio-demographic profile of these active citizens, interested in the public life of the city and involved in improving the decision-making process; 2.to understand the reasons pushing for participation in this process; 3. To detect the self-evaluation of experience of active citizens. Gathering bottom-up indications on implementation of PB and receiving citizens’ advice on the improvement of this practice were the objectives that our research intended to achieve. The results of the survey show how the participants present a rather homogeneous socio-demographic profile, a continuous electoral participation, even with a certain distrust towards parties and national institutions, while showing satisfaction for the role and outcomes of Participatory Budget. While expressing some critical issues on some of the PB’s features, the citizens of Milan participating to the survey offer valuable suggestions for improving this participatory tool for urban democracy.References
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