Budżet Obywatelski Miasta Krakowa jako przykład realizacja demokracji deliberatywnej

The history of participatory budget (PB) in Poland is less than 10 years old. The occurrence of PB was to raisethe local government to a higher level of civil society by introducing so-called deliberative democracy. Forsome contemporary political thinkers, what defines politics is intersubjective dialogue conducted by citizensin an open and public space. Deliberative democracy is characterized by: a) elementary competences of theparticipants who have to become acquainted with the material concerning the issue concerned b) the needto formulate their position, which is the result of reflection, reflection on the issue c) civic debate where allproposals have the right to be presented, argued and discussed. The subject of this paper is the civic budget,also referred to as participatory budget (both names are often used interchangeably) as an expression of thewillingness of citizens to allocate funds that are available to local authorities. Editions of the citizens’ budgetin Krakow between 2014 and 2019 were analysed, the procedure and functions of this social institution wereshown.