Working Group of the Draft Constitution of Mexico City
The Working Group of the Draft Constitution of Mexico City is the space for social and civic participation in charge of advising the Head of Government of Mexico City on the elaboration of the Draft Constitution of Mexico City. It is made up of representatives of civil society, academia and specialists. The Group is empowered to evaluate and consider citizen opinion under the criteria of legality, quality, viability and social benefit. It includes 28 representatives of civil society and specialists from different fields. Its main objective is to ensure that the new local Constitution reflects the vital issues of the city and that there is no regression of civil rights and freedoms.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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