Argentina

Forums of the Coalition for Democratic Broadcasting

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2004 – 2016
Name of organization in charge: Coalición por una Radiodifusión Democrática
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: local regional national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Forums of the Coalition for Democratic Broadcasting is a group formed by different social organizations (press unions, universities, community radio, human rights organizations, government agencies, among others) that was formed to prepare, present and advocate for a new legislative scheme of broadcasting that would replace pre-existing legislation in Argentina, which had been established by the last military dictatorship. To this end, the Coalition organized and carried out forums and meetings throughout the country for five years, from which discussions and contributions prepared an agenda with 21 essential points for a new law, agreed on by all of the social actors involved. This experience was a direct antecedent of the sanction of the Law of Audiovisual Communication Services in 2009. Although the initial objective was fulfilled in 2009, the group continued its activities in view of the many limitations and difficulties that the law later found to achieve its full validity due to conflicts with media monopolies.

Institutional design

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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: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no 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