Portugal
Local Government
124
Large Cities
0
Capital Cities
3
Regional or State Governments
5
National Government
0
Other Institutions
1557
Local Government
124
Large Cities
0
Capital Cities
3
Regional or State Governments
5
National Government
0
Other Institutions
1557
Community
Capital
Lisbon
Population
10 281 760
Language
Portuguese
Currency
Euro
Indexes
Democracy
27
Flawed Democracy
Democracy
Democracy
27
Flawed Democracy
Democracy
Corruption Perception
30/180
Corruption Perception
Corruption Perception
30/180
Corruption Perception
Human Development
41
Very High
Human Development
Human Development
41
Very High
Human Development
World Happiness
66/156
World Happiness
World Happiness
66/156
World Happiness
Legislação sobre Orçamentos Participativos
At national level there is a binding legislation regarding the National Schools PB. There are two resolutions form the National council cabinet for Portugal PB and Youth PB. Regarding the autonomous regions, there are two resolutions from the autonomous government council regarding the PB processes for Azores and Madeira. At local level, municipalities and parishes either use municipal regulations or legal rulings. There are roughly 57 municipal regulations and 42 legal rulings for the active PB processes.
Inovações em destaque
The main innovation in Portuguese PB processes regards to the fact that, presently, there are three different levels of governance implementing it: national, regional and local.
It started in 2002 at local level, incremented by municipalities and parishes. In the following years there was a considerable increase in the number of local PB and, in 2017, a scale up to national took place, led by the Portuguese Government. At this point three national processes emerged (the National, the Youth and the School PB). These three were extended to all the Portuguese territory since the mainland until the islands of Azores and Madeira and demand some articulation from the national cabinet with local agents as schools, municipalities and other local organizations.
The third level takes us to the regional scale. The Portuguese islands of Azores and Madeira are ruled by autonomous governments and, by their own resolution each one must increment a PB process regarding its region. In the Portuguese governmental context this means that all the levels of governance are implementing its own PB process and inclusively those at national and regional level are established by legislation.
Principais Tendências
There are two main tendencies regarding Portuguese PB:
- Predominance of multichannel approaches. There is an increasing tendency, in the active pb, to insert digital in both proposal presentation and voting phases. This shows that PB rulers acknowledge the importance of adding digital approaches as a complement to the face-to-face ones, in order to make the process more accessible and transparent, adapted to the different types of citizens;
- The growth of youth PB. Youth PB implemented by municipalities and parishes had been increasing in the country, especially since 2016. Also, both national and regional governments had considered the importance of involving youth in these co-decisional processes, namely: at national level with the implementation of youth and school PB; at regional level by considering thematic areas regarding the participation of citizens over 14 years old.
