Thematic Social Forum for Political Reform
The Thematic Social Forum for Political Reform was a process of deliberation for an administrative and political reform in Brazil, organized by a Facilitation Committee as a preparatory space for the World Social Forum, in which more than 100 organizations participated. The objective was to create an open and horizontal space for debate and discussion on 12 thematic axes: 1. Electoral system and private financing of campaigns, 2. (Under) representation and equality in politics, 3. Direct and participatory democracy, 4. Exclusive constituencies, 5. Political system and democratization of power, 6. "Return, Gilmar", 7. Democratization of the judiciary, 8. Democratization of the media, 9. Fight against corruption, 10. Demilitarization of politics and decriminalization of social movements, 11. Transparency, social control and democratization of the State, and 12. Political reform and territoriality: local popular movements. During a first stage, between June and July, all interested organizations, movements and individuals were invited to share their opinion in thematic workshops or in self-organized activities. During a second stage, in the city of Sao Paulo, the Facilitating Committee organized three days with centralized thematic meetings to gather the conclusions. Finally, a Convergence Plenary was held to formulate conclusions and determine joint strategic lines of action.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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