Exploring Legitimacy in a Municipal Budget Decision in Switzerland: Empirical Insights into Citizens' Perceptions

Why It Matters

Democratic innovation needs evidence about how people evaluate actual allocation processes. This paper grounds legitimacy claims in citizen perceptions from a municipal decision context.

Abstract

An empirical study investigating how citizens in Switzerland evaluate legitimacy, fairness, and transparency in participatory budget decisions.

Paper Content

Core Contribution

This paper investigates how citizens evaluate legitimacy in a municipal budget decision in Switzerland. It focuses on empirical perceptions of fairness, transparency, and acceptance in a real democratic decision context.

Research Use

The study is useful for democratic innovation researchers because it grounds claims about legitimacy in citizen perceptions rather than only formal properties of an allocation rule.