Citizen Conversation
The Citizen Conversation was an initiative of the Judiciary that ran between 2010 and 2012, and focused on creating spaces for citizen participation. In the conversations, the authorities and civil representatives reported on policies and programs, exchanged opinions, provided explanations, and held consultation rounds with proposals from individual citizens and civil society organizations. Although the initiative did not result in concrete decisions, it did have an advisory nature.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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