LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Viešasis administravimas; Viešosios institucijos; Demokratija; Public administration; Public institutions; Democracy; Public participation.
ENThe specific goals of public participation can include the following: collecting information and presenting it to citizens; improving quality of public programs, projects, services and public decisions; supplementing public institutions work; altering political power patterns and allocating public resources. The concept of public participation has been applied in different ways solving various problems and incorporated into formal mechanism for decision making at all levels. Citizen groups having political power influence bureaucrats strongly and make them obey when group values closely match those of the bureaucracy. However, lack of citizens’ expertise, time and access limit effect of their input increasing responsibility of bureaucratic institutions. [From the publication]