Referendum
The Referendum is a mechanism enshrined in the Argentine National Constitution after its reform in 1994, which allows one to submit to the populace a draft legislation, which may or may not be binding. It must be called on the initiative of the Chamber of Deputies, and must also have the approval of the Senate. Voting is compulsory for the populace, and the result of the consultation will only be effective if at least 35% of the voters register to vote. There are topics excluded from the possibility of being consulted, which are those that can only be subject to legislation at the initiative of one of the Chambers or requiring a qualified majority.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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