2024 Dataset of Participatory Budgeting in Italy

Bassoli, Matteo and Almagisti, Marco and Badia, Francesco and Brenco, Chiara and D'Avella, Giuseppe and Felicetti, Andrea and Graziano, Paolo and Greppi, Tommaso and Iida, Elisabetta Ginevra and Kocollari, Ulpiana and Mastrocola, Francesco and Mauro, Sara Giovanna and Perini, Lorenza and Quattromani, Dario and Ranucci, Paula Alicia and Saija, Francesco and Scarselli, Martina and Stortone, Stefano and Valletta, Carmen (2026) 2024 Dataset of Participatory Budgeting in Italy. [Data Collection]

Collection description

The dataset provides data on Italian Municipalities’ policies pertaining to participatory budgeting (PB). The dataset comprises information on all municipalities, and is composed as follows: Municipality ISTAT Code (ID), Municipality Name (MN) Province, Region, Population (2011 Census), Researcher (IR), Mapping randomized process (MR), Mapping Method (MM), twenty dummy variables identifying Municipalities running PB in a given year (y1994, y2002 to y2020), Number of years with PB (TOT). Overall, the dataset comprises 7909 units of mapped municipalities.

DOI:	10.25430/researchdata.cab.unipd.it.00001811
Keywords:	Participatory budgeting, Local level, Democracy, Accountability
Subjects:	Social Sciences and Humanities > Institutions, Values, Environment and Space :Political science, law, sustainability science, geography, regional studies and planning > Political systems, governance Social Sciences and Humanities > Institutions, Values, Environment and Space :Political science, law, sustainability science, geography, regional studies and planning > Democratisation and social movements
Department:	Interdepartmental Centres > Centro interdipartimentale studi regionali "Giorgio Lago" - CISR
Depositing User:	Matteo Bassoli
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2026 10:07
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2026 15:36
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email ORCID Bassoli, Matteo matteo.bassoli@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-9099 Almagisti, Marco marco.almagisti@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-8412 Badia, Francesco francesco.badia@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0002-3484-5293 Brenco, Chiara chiara.brenco@studenti.unipd.it UNSPECIFIED D'Avella, Giuseppe gdavella@gmail.com orcid.org/0009-0008-0616-6550 Felicetti, Andrea andrea.felicetti@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-1012 Graziano, Paolo paoloroberto.graziano@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0002-9596-9660 Greppi, Tommaso tommaso.greppi@studenti.unipd.it orcid.org/0009-0007-4354-8358 Iida, Elisabetta Ginevra elisabettaginevra.iida@studenti.unipd.it orcid.org/0009-0002-5812-9408 Kocollari, Ulpiana ulpiana.kocollari@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0003-4643-7673 Mastrocola, Francesco francesco.mastrocola@unidav.it, orcid.org/0009-0000-2829-5937 Mauro, Sara Giovanna saragiovanna.mauro@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0003-4309-3625 Perini, Lorenza lorenza.perini@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0001-5377-4382 Quattromani, Dario d.quattromani@unilink.it orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-1725 Ranucci, Paula Alicia paulaalicia.ranucci@studenti.unitus.it orcid.org/0000-0002-2018-4068 Saija, Francesco francescosaija@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED Scarselli, Martina martina.scarselli1@gmail.com orcid.org/0009-0004-8153-4799 Stortone, Stefano ste.stortone@bipart.it orcid.org/0000-0001-8530-8968 Valletta, Carmen carmen.vallet@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED
Corporate creators:	BiPart Impresa sociale Srl, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Regionali (CISR) “Giorgio Lago” - Università degli Studi di Padova, Parliament Watch Italia
Type of data:	Text
Collection period:	From To January 2026 April 2026
Temporal coverage:	From To 1994 2024
Geographic coverage:	Italy
Data collection method:	According to the 4/2004 law, every municipality has to implement its own website; moreover, PB is a policy which needs to be advertised in all possible form (Bassoli 2010, Bassoli and Amura 2003), therefore we could assume that every recent PB was advertised online. We based our mapping on this assumption and gathered information on the presence of PB using a standard procedure of web-search based on keywords. We opted for the Google™ search-engine because it is the most widely used search engine and the one with a stronger user-led learning algorithm. We then identified the crucial key words composed of two possibilities for the first mapping level (more stringent) (variable MM=2): • • “Comune di + [name of the municipality]” & “Bilancio Partecipativo” • • “Comune di + [name of the municipality]” & “Bilancio Partecipato” and two possibilities for the second mapping level (looser) (variable MM=1): • • Comune di [name of the municipality] & “Bilancio Partecipativo” • • Comune di [name of the municipality] & “Bilancio Partecipato” While the first key-word string produced a limited number of pages, because it forced the web-engine to acknowledge the presence of the Municipality in a rather stringent manner, the second allows the web-engine to produce less relevant and more abundant results. Those researchers following the looser approach previously used the stringent one. Therefore, the loose approach has been used only for some municipalities. Every search produced one or more pages as results. The methodology then required the researcher to spend 10 minutes on each Municipality to reach a positive result, focusing either on the first page or on the first few pages. Thereafter, either the researcher moved to the next case, or she could dwell on the documentation produced by the PB in the municipality. All the information obtained on the web was inserted in two documents: the database and a second document gathering qualitative information about the experience, which is available upon request (see oibp.bipart.it).
Resource language:	Italian
Metadata language:	English
Additional information:	Additional material is available on the Osservatorio Italiano sui Bilanci Partecipativi: https://oibp.bipart.it/ Or in the CISR dedicated page https://www.centrostudiregionali.unipd.it/?page_id=781
Publisher:	Research Data Unipd
Related items (publications; dataset):	https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/469/ (Dataset) https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/457/ (Dataset) https://doi.org/10.31107/2075-1990-2021-... (Publisher) https://oficina-atlas.onesource.pt/en/pb... (Publisher)
Date:	24 April 2026
Copyright holders:	The authors
URI:	https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/id/eprint/1811
Additional details Additional details Creators/Authors: Creators Email ORCID Bassoli, Matteo matteo.bassoli@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-9099 Almagisti, Marco marco.almagisti@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-8412 Badia, Francesco francesco.badia@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0002-3484-5293 Brenco, Chiara chiara.brenco@studenti.unipd.it UNSPECIFIED D'Avella, Giuseppe gdavella@gmail.com orcid.org/0009-0008-0616-6550 Felicetti, Andrea andrea.felicetti@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-1012 Graziano, Paolo paoloroberto.graziano@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0002-9596-9660 Greppi, Tommaso tommaso.greppi@studenti.unipd.it orcid.org/0009-0007-4354-8358 Iida, Elisabetta Ginevra elisabettaginevra.iida@studenti.unipd.it orcid.org/0009-0002-5812-9408 Kocollari, Ulpiana ulpiana.kocollari@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0003-4643-7673 Mastrocola, Francesco francesco.mastrocola@unidav.it, orcid.org/0009-0000-2829-5937 Mauro, Sara Giovanna saragiovanna.mauro@unimore.it orcid.org/0000-0003-4309-3625 Perini, Lorenza lorenza.perini@unipd.it orcid.org/0000-0001-5377-4382 Quattromani, Dario d.quattromani@unilink.it orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-1725 Ranucci, Paula Alicia paulaalicia.ranucci@studenti.unitus.it orcid.org/0000-0002-2018-4068 Saija, Francesco francescosaija@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED Scarselli, Martina martina.scarselli1@gmail.com orcid.org/0009-0004-8153-4799 Stortone, Stefano ste.stortone@bipart.it orcid.org/0000-0001-8530-8968 Valletta, Carmen carmen.vallet@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED Corporate creators: BiPart Impresa sociale Srl, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Regionali (CISR) “Giorgio Lago” - Università degli Studi di Padova, Parliament Watch Italia Type of data: Text Collection period: From To January 2026 April 2026 Temporal coverage: From To 1994 2024 Geographic coverage: Italy Data collection method: According to the 4/2004 law, every municipality has to implement its own website; moreover, PB is a policy which needs to be advertised in all possible form (Bassoli 2010, Bassoli and Amura 2003), therefore we could assume that every recent PB was advertised online. We based our mapping on this assumption and gathered information on the presence of PB using a standard procedure of web-search based on keywords. We opted for the Google™ search-engine because it is the most widely used search engine and the one with a stronger user-led learning algorithm. We then identified the crucial key words composed of two possibilities for the first mapping level (more stringent) (variable MM=2): • • “Comune di + [name of the municipality]” & “Bilancio Partecipativo” • • “Comune di + [name of the municipality]” & “Bilancio Partecipato” and two possibilities for the second mapping level (looser) (variable MM=1): • • Comune di [name of the municipality] & “Bilancio Partecipativo” • • Comune di [name of the municipality] & “Bilancio Partecipato” While the first key-word string produced a limited number of pages, because it forced the web-engine to acknowledge the presence of the Municipality in a rather stringent manner, the second allows the web-engine to produce less relevant and more abundant results. Those researchers following the looser approach previously used the stringent one. Therefore, the loose approach has been used only for some municipalities. Every search produced one or more pages as results. The methodology then required the researcher to spend 10 minutes on each Municipality to reach a positive result, focusing either on the first page or on the first few pages. Thereafter, either the researcher moved to the next case, or she could dwell on the documentation produced by the PB in the municipality. All the information obtained on the web was inserted in two documents: the database and a second document gathering qualitative information about the experience, which is available upon request (see oibp.bipart.it). Resource language: Italian Metadata language: English Additional information: Additional material is available on the Osservatorio Italiano sui Bilanci Partecipativi: https://oibp.bipart.it/ Or in the CISR dedicated page https://www.centrostudiregionali.unipd.it/?page_id=781 Publisher: Research Data Unipd Related items (publications; dataset): https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/469/ (Dataset) https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/457/ (Dataset) https://doi.org/10.31107/2075-1990-2021-... (Publisher) https://oficina-atlas.onesource.pt/en/pb... (Publisher) Date: 24 April 2026 Copyright holders: The authors Last Modified: 11 Jun 2026 15:36

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