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Designing Participation: Institutional and Socio-Technical Determinants of Participatory Budgeting in Brno and Bratislava

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2025-0007 | Journal eISSN: 1339-9276 | Journal ISSN: 1338-6891
Language: English
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Published on: Dec 21, 2025
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