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Original: There are participatory budgeting projects in the Valencian Community: in Valencia (since 2015); and in Catalonia: Barcelona (since 2020).

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Participatory budgeting projects in Spain accelerated in the early 2000s, typically as a result of left-wing party advocacy.[1] Left-wing municipal governments established participatory budgeting exercises in "Sevilla, Albacete, San Sebastián, Getafe, Leganés, Sabadell, Leganés, Segovia, Torrellano, Elche, Algeciras [and] Novelda."[2] Other municipalities that have implemented participatory budgeting at some point include "Puente Genil, Cabezas de San Juan and Rubi."[3] As one of the first participatory budgeting experiments in Europe, participatory budgeting in Córdoba was influenced by other participatory exercises and originated from resistance to the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s and the experience in Porto Alegre, Brazil.[4]

Although participatory budgeting experiments across Spain seemed to provide deliberate spaces for participation of citizens, Ganuza and Francés (2014) suggest that these experiments decreased in number through 2010 because municipal governments did not change their decision-making processes to accommodate greater citizen involvement.[5] For example, the experiment in Córdoba was pushed by the municipal government and associations and only impacted up to 5% of the municipal budget.[6] Pineda Nebot (2009) elaborates that local governments across Spain struggle to coordinate between citizens who recommend specific spending priorities and the bureaucracy that implements the budget.[7]

In more recent times, participatory budgeting has resurged and expanded to some major cities, including Barcelona and Madrid. After left-wing parties won the Madrid municipal elections in 2015, a participatory budgeting experiment began, but the practice has faced problems with clear communication, transparency, and utilization of latest technology.[2] For example, Pineda Nebot and Pires (2017) believe that many of the experiments in Spain do not provide sufficient information about previous budgets or space for citizens to design the rules of debate to have better deliberations, though they suggest that adopting technological innovations could improve the process.[8] In the other hand, Ganuza and Francés (2014) and Sintomer et al. (2008) believe that some Spanish experiments of participatory budgeting are successful at creating deliberative spaces compared to in other parts of Europe since Spanish citizens tend to have a greater role in deciding the municipal budget.[5][1] Looking at municipalities in the province of Barcelona, Parés (2011) agrees with previous research that find that participatory budgeting in Spanish municipalities with smaller populations have been more successful.[9][10]

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  1. ^ a b Sintomer, Yves; Herzberg, Carsten; Röcke, Anja (2008). "Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Potentials and Challenges: Participatory budgeting in Europe". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 32 (1): 164–178. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00777.x.
  2. ^ a b Nebot, Carmen Pineda (2018-04-01). "El presupuesto participativo de Madrid: luces y sombras". Revista de Gestão e Secretariado (in Spanish). 9 (1): 265–292. doi:10.7769/gesec.v9i1.687. ISSN 2178-9010.
  3. ^ Alfaro, César; Gómez, Javier; Ríos, Jesús (2010), Rios Insua, David; French, Simon (eds.), "From Participatory to e-Participatory Budgets", e-Democracy: A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 283–299, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9045-4_16, ISBN 978-90-481-9045-4, retrieved 2022-10-24
  4. ^ Fernández, Ernesto Ganuza; Nez, Héloïse (2012). "Las paradojas de la participación: conflictos entre saberes en los nuevos dispositivos participativos". Praxis sociológica (16): 79–98. ISSN 1575-0817.
  5. ^ a b Ganuza, Ernesto; Francés, Francisco (2014). "The Participants' print in the Participatory Budget: overview on the Spanish experiments". In Dias, Nelson (ed.). Hope for Democracy: 25 Years of Participatory Budgeting (PDF). São Brás de Alportel: In Loco Association. pp. 301–312. ISBN 978-972-8262-09-9.
  6. ^ Kębłowski, Wojciech; Van Criekingen, Mathieu (2014-12-15). "How "alternative" alternative urban policies really are?". Métropoles (15). doi:10.4000/metropoles.4994. ISSN 1957-7788.
  7. ^ Nebot, Carmen Pineda (2009-12-31). "Los Presupuestos Participativos en España: un nuevo balance". Revista de Estudios de la Administración Local y Autonómica (in Spanish): 277–302. doi:10.24965/reala.v0i311.9692. ISSN 1989-8975.
  8. ^ Nebot, Carmen Pineda; Pires, Valdemir (2017-10-16). "¿A qué llaman hoy presupuesto participativo?". GIGAPP Estudios Working Papers (in Spanish). 4 (72–78): 435–449. ISSN 2174-9515.
  9. ^ Parés, Marc (2011). "Fortalezas y debilidades de las experiencias del presupuesto participativo en Barcelona (España)". In Briseño Becerra, Carlos Alberto (ed.). Presupuesto participativo: Herramienta para la democracia (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Guadalajara, Jalisco, México: Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana de Jalisco. pp. 85–94. ISBN 978-607-8054-09-1.
  10. ^ Ganuza Fernández, Ernesto; Gómez Fortes, Braulio (2008). "Control político y participación en democracia: los presupuestos participativos". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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