Open Town Halls Tlaxcala
The open town halls of the State of Tlaxcala, better known as "Voz Ciudadana" (lit. the voice of the citizenry) are a participatory mechanism to directly consult the population of a given municipality. They are carried out within the framework of the Citizen Consultation Law of Tlaxcala, which establishes the obligation of the city councils to guarantee and promote the participation of the civil society. To participate in the open town halls, citizens must fill an application form individually. This application must include a proposal, its objectives and benefits, its cost, the expected participation of citizens, and a formal request.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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