Popular Initiative (Protection of Life)
The Popular Initiative for the Reform of the Political Constitution of the State of Jalisco, in its fourth and fifteenth articles for the State to protect and recognize from the same, the life of every individual or person from conception to natural death, was supported by 48 247 valid citizen signatures which represented 1.04% of the total number of citizens registered in the voter list for the State of Jalisco. Therefore, the initiative was studied and voted on by the State Congress to result in the reform of the Comprehensive Development of the Elderly Law of the State of Jalisco.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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