@article{2015:geiel:dialogorie, title = {Dialogorientierte Beteiligungsverfahren: Wirkungsvolle oder sinnlose Innovationen? Das Beispiel Bürgerhaushalt}, year = {2015}, note = {The search for effective and legitimate will-formation and decision-making is one of the main topics of political science . Currently dialogue-oriented procedures of citizen-involve- ment are often regarded as hope for the future - or as useless ‘window-dressing’ . The exam- ple ‘participatory budgeting in Germany’ studied here proves that dialogue-oriented citi- zen-involvement can be regarded both as useful and as useless - depending on the criteria . From the perspective of democratic theory as well as from the views of different actors in- volved in the practice of participatory budgeting a preliminary framework for analysis is discussed . The aim is not to provide a conclusive evaluation of such procedures, but to provide a clarification, refinement and advancement of a set of criteria . Such an advanced, multidimensional set of criteria will enable future research to create a ‘big picture evalua- tion’ by means of combining the currently very fragmented evaluations with their incon- sistent criteria . [ZParl, vol . 46, no . 1, pp . 151 - 165]}, journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen}, pages = {151--165}, author = {Geißel, Brigitte and Neunecker, Martina and Kolleck, Alma}, volume = {46}, number = {1} }