Consultation Committee for the Constitutional Reform
The Consultation Committees for the Constitutional Reform were created in 2011 to consider and propose possible contributions to the Constitutional reform, and to present them to the Special Consultation Commission for Amendments to the Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama. The Committees were organized around 4 themes: 1) The Panamanian State and Individual and Social Rights; 2) Justice Administration; 3) Executive and Legislative Branches, and 4) Public Funds, National Economy and Other Institutions. At each committee, agreements were sought on the topics subject to their deliberations, but records were kept about disagreements for further consideration in the Special Commission. Between June and August 2011, the Committees debated a total of 562 proposals and reached 281 agreements.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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