For Whom I Vote
"For Whom I Vote" is a web platform developed by a group of young people from civil society with the objective of improving the quality of democracy in the country, promoting informed voting and clarifying the positions of political parties in relation to the main issues of interest in the Guatemalan society. The mechanism for the realization of this platform consists of a series of meetings and debates with the political parties, these meetings and debates are later audited to give the voters an overview of the politicians? platform.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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