Citizen Consultation (telephone) about the approval or rejection of the implementation of daylight savings time
The Citizen Consultation is the instrument through which direct questions, forums or consultations, on any subject that has a relevant impact in the different areas of Mexico City and its citizenry is submitted. In February 2001, the head of the Government of Mexico City ordered a telephone consultation to learn the opinion of the public as to whether or not daylight saving time should be applied in that city. 318 000 votes were received, of which 75 percent (239 437) were against the application of daylight saving time and 25 percent (78 867) were in favor.
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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