Citizens' Debates
The ?Citizens' Debates? are a citizen initiative, promoted by various civil society organizations, through which debates and dialogues between citizens and political candidates of the 2018 electoral contest were organized. In this way, citizens' active participation in the public discussion regarding the candidates' proposals was promoted with the aim of fostering an informed vote among citizens. Additionally, the initiative facilitated the means for civil society to be heard and contribute with topics and concerns for these to be considered by the electoral candidates. The debates were organized with candidates for governor, legislations, municipal presidency and national presidency and they were carried in different cities and states around the country.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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