Several local governments
in Taiwan have adopted participatory budgeting to inject citizen input into the
public budget process since 2015. Public officials have advocated the
advantages, disadvantages, and functions of this participatory mechanism.
However, it is still not clear the development of adopting
participatory budgeting of the initial experience of Taiwan. Through the case
study of Kaohsiung city, this study
mainly describes the functions of participatory budgeting, analyzes the
primary participants, discusses the Kaohsiung’s participatory budgeting
experience, and has suggestions for the future development of participatory
budgeting.
