Colombia

Citizen Initiative "Anticorruption Consultation"

The citizens' initiative for the implementation of a popular consultation on anti-corruption measures was promoted by the political party Alianza Verde (lit. Green Aliance). It was led by Senator Claudia López and 6 party leaders. It was supported by 35 thousand volunteers, who, during six months, disseminated information about the consultation and gathered 4,236,682 signatures in 460 municipalities of the country - making this the most supported initiative of the last decades in Colombia. In addition to gathering more than the necessary signatures, 5.8 million letters were sent to the senators, who voted unanimously in favor of the implementation of this Popular Consultation.

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  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision  
Co-Governance
no 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

How to quote

Do you want to use the data from this website? Here’s how to cite:

Pogrebinschi, Thamy. (2017). LATINNO Dataset. Berlin: WZB.

Would you like to contribute to our database?

Send us a case