Popular Consultation of La Manga Del Cura
The Popular Consultation that took place in the municipality of La Manga del Cura sought to put to vote the question about which province should said municipality belong to. The Consultation was framed within the provisions of the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008. More than 15 000 people took part, of which 66% of the votes decided on the province of Manabi, instead of Guayas.
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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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