| dc.description.abstract | With the failure of representative democracy and the rise of civic consciousness, the participatory budgeting is the demonstration of deliberative democracy and has been widely implemented in the six special municipalities in Taiwan. The enforcement of the participatory budgeting under the framework of the councilors suggestive fund by the New Taipei City Council councilor, Yi-chun, Chen, was not only the first case of the completion of the participatory budgeting, but also the effective utilization motivated by the representative, trying to reach the public welfare to meet the needs of the local residents via the participatory budgeting.
The present study is devoted to the related legal-system research based on the operation of the participatory budgeting in the local government under the framework of the councilors suggestive fund by the New Taipei City Council councilors, with a view to understanding the operation of the current government budgeting system and the history of the system of councilors suggestive fund as well as the practicability of the combination of the councilors suggestive fund and the participatory budgeting in the theoretical perspectives of citizen participation and deliberative democracy. The present study has suggestive that the system of the New Taipei City councilors suggestive fund and related budgeting are widely scattered through the administrative bureaus and departments. In the past, the formed cultural norms in the administrative rules were to rein the administrative agencies, while now non-official system without the formed cultural norms has taken its turn. The present research attempts to construct the operation procedure of the councilors suggestive fund and the participatory budgeting through literature analysis, participation and observation, and in-depth interviews, and further discovers the practicability of the combination of the councilors suggestive fund and the participatory budgeting, and the limitation of the enforcement, such as the remote areas, the lengthy discussions and operations and related high costs. In the end, the present study suggests the small-scale direct democracy can still make up for the failure of the current representative democracy. With the practicability of the councilors suggestive fund and the participatory budgeting, the present study also suggests the enactment of related laws should employ the spirit of the participatory budgeting so that the councilors suggestive fund can be of ad hoc approach, and thus the budgeting resource can be properly distributed.
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