Citizen Consultation (Permanence in the Head of Government position)
The Citizen Consultation is an instrument for hearing the opinion of the citizenry on any topic with relevant impact in the different areas of Mexico City. In 2004, the Head of Government of Mexico City (formerly the Federal District) called on the inhabitants to participate in a public consultation to decide on his permanence at the head of the administration. 53% of the participants voted in favor of the Head of Government continuing in his position.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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