Cheaper Chamber
The "Camara mais Barata" (lit. Cheaper Chamber) Bill was the result of a campaign started by the Social Observatory of Brazil and the Institute of Inspection and Control, with the support of numerous civil society organizations, to develop and sponsor a Popular Legislative Initiative to reduce the expenses generated by the legislative chamber of the Federal District of Brasília. The bill affects various aspects of the Chamber's budget, limiting the possibility of deputies to appoint their employees and strengthening the transparency of data and control processes over expenses. The text of the project was prepared by the organizations, and a signature gathering campaign was carried out through a website, an application for cell phones, and physical forms. The project was able to gather 23,000 signatures, with which it was admitted to a regular process of popular initiative. However, due to the lack of treatment of the project in the Chamber and the appeal to Justice by the promoting organizations, the Chamber decided to archive the project without treating it in plenary session in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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