Open Town Hall
Open Town Halls are public meetings held by municipal authorities together with citizens and neighbors. They are an instrument for local governments to directly communicate with the civil society and they are deemed necessary for an effective municipal administration. They are held with the aim of responding to the wishes of the population, and constitute a permanent expression of the popular will. During the meetings, citizens can freely express their opinions on the issues that are on the Municipality?s agenda, with the purpose of strengthening the deliberation and decision-making processes of the municipal authorities.
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
- regular
- 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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