Popular Consultation "Change of name of the boulevard Hugo Chavez"
The Mayor of Ilopango organized the Popular Consultation ?Change of name of the Boulevard Hugo Chavez?. 1,520 people participated; 1,208 voted in favor of renaming the boulevard to San Bartolo. The rest of the votes varied among six other proposals. The late Venezuelan leader received only 13 votes. The Municipal Code includes a consultation mechanism and stipulates that at least 40 % of inhabitants must petition such a 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 binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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