Mayor, how are we doing? (Nuevo León)
Mayor, how are we doing? is an instrument for accountability that seeks to change the relationship between citizens and the local authorities. It is a platform of more than 40 social, academic and business organizations that made 10 proposals to the mayoral candidates in the 9 conurbations of Monterrey during the electoral process of 2012 (Monterrey, Guadalupe, Apodaca, San Nicolás de los Garza, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Santa Catarina, Escobedo, García and Juárez). The mayors-elect signed a commitment to take concrete actions between 2012 and 2015. Over 3 years, the platform measured, compared and communicated the level of compliance of each action in each municipality.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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