Referendum for Freedom (raised the need for a change in economic policy and adherence to the citizens' agenda with 10 points)
The Citizen Referendum for Freedom raised the need for a change in economic policy and adherence to the citizens' agenda with ten points. The action was carried out between September and November of 1995 and as an objective had to seek the support of citizens for a new economic project. 62 promoters were recruited, who collected 3372 signatures. One of the primary results of the citizens' referendum was the recognition of these forms of citizen participation in the laws of the states.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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