Consultations for the 2006 Constitutional Reform
In 2006, President Leonel Fernandez announced a consultative process aimed at profoundly reforming the Dominican Constitution by 2010. Based on decree 323-06 from August 8, 2006, a presidential commission was founded with the aim of organizing and supervising public consultations prior to the constitutional reform eventually being implemented in 2010. More than 150 meetings, public hearings and consultations were held in 2006-7. Various reports covering the events both confirm and discuss about the effective and constructive participation -or lack of thereof- of citizens and civil society actors.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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