Participatory budgeting is fast becoming a popular form of public participation. Public managers play an important role in organizing and implementing participatory budgeting. Their role perceptions affect whether they use their discretion to limit or increase residents’ say in participatory processes. However, we know little about public managers’ role perceptions in participatory budgeting. In this study, we develop a typology of public managers’ role perceptions in participatory budgeting using a Q-methodological analysis of public managers in seven municipal participatory budgeting projects in Belgium. We find evidence for four distinct perspectives: a managerial, citizen-centered, technocratic, and skeptical perspective.

参与式预算正在迅速成为一种流行的公众参与形式。公共管理者在组织和实施参与式预算方面发挥着重要作用。他们的角色认知会影响他们是否使用自由裁量权来限制或增加居民在参与过程中的发言权。然而，我们对公共管理者在参与式预算中的角色认知知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们使用对比利时七个市政参与式预算项目中的公共管理人员的 Q 方法分析，开发了公共管理人员在参与式预算中的角色认知类型学。我们找到了四种不同观点的证据：管理观点、以公民为中心、技术官僚观点和怀疑观点。