Public Hearings "Governing with the Neighbor"
The Public Hearings "Governing with the Neighbor" are open meetings in which the Mayor welcomes the neighbors to discuss issues from concrete cases to public policies, in some cases with the possibility of an immediate decision on the problem. If this is not possible to resolve immediately, after the interview with the Mayor the problems are processed by the Neighborhood Participation Management, which channels them to the competent administrative authorities. They have successfully been carried out on a weekly basis since 2011. In addition, other monitoring and evaluation measures (surveys) are carried out on issues raised during the hearings.
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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