Student Democratic Experimentation projects in Cochabamba
The Student Democratic Experimentation projects in Cochabamba seek to reinvent the traditional functioning of student government councils through raffle elections and the rotation of its members. Their purpose is to allow more students to engage for the first time in an innovative democratic experience. Participants are encouraged to think critically, deliberate and propose creative solutions to problems that affect them and that they have identified. The student councils carry out activities such as: improving school gardens, cleaning the school, organizing trips or adapting spaces to give them a useful use to the community student. They also are required to present accountability reports on their work and progress.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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