當代為了解決自由民主體制的問題，實務者及研究者強化授權性的參與機制，透過具備直接民主精神的公民參與，來提升公共資源配置的分配正義，參與式預算就是其中積極手段之一。為了提升行政機關以及公務人員推動參與式預算業務的能力與意願，公共賦權是將參與式預算的決議制度化，並實際產生政策影響的關鍵。本計畫預計以兩年為期，以桃園市政府作為研究場域，透過深入訪談、參與觀察等質性研究方法，探討地方行政機關以及公務人員推動參與式預算的賦權過程與賦權結果的動態發展。就賦權過程而言，地方行政機關必須經由培力、動員、監督等行政作為，確保公民與公務人員擁有進行說理式的審議，並達成決定公共預算與政策之優先順序的參與能力；就賦權結果而言，地方行政機關以及公務人員也必須具備執行參與式預算決議的回應性，確定公民可以實際影響參與式預算的提案落實於行政機關之預算編列外，亦得付諸執行。本計畫將透過環境、機關、機制、參與者四個賦權構面的經驗研究，探討桃園市政府如何經由提供參與式預算溝通平台的形式性賦權，轉化為執行參與式預算決議的實質性賦權。本計畫的研究結果不僅可彌補當前學術論述之不足，還可提供地方政府創新參與制度以及調整預算程序的實務建議。 ;To address the contemporary problems of liberal democracy, practitioners and researchers are reinforcing the mechanism for authorized participation. In the spirit of direct democracy, citizen participation is used to justly distribute public resources through positive means such as participatory budgeting. To achieve public empowerment and policy impact, participatory budgeting resolutions are institutionalized to motivate executive authorities and civil servants to promote participatory budgetary operations and increase their competence. The expected project duration is two years, and the research field is the Taoyuan City Government. Qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviews and participant observation are used to examine the ongoing empowerment process and outcome of participatory budgeting promotion by local administrative authorities and civil servants. In the empowerment process, local administrations must ensure that citizens and public officials conduct reasoned deliberations through administrative actions such as training, mobilization and supervision, and prioritize public budgets and policies. In the empowerment outcome, local administrations and civil servants must be responsive to the implementation of participatory budget resolutions to ensure that citizens can practically influence policy implementation by local administrations and civil servants. This project empirically examines four dimensions of public empowerment, namely environment, institution, mechanisms and participants to explore how the Taoyuan City Government transforms the formal empowerment of its participatory budgeting communication platform into substantive empowerment where participatory budgeting resolutions are implemented. The project results not only compensate for current inadequacies in academic discourse, but also provide local governments with practical suggestions for participatory system innovations and budgeting process adjustment.
