Citizens' Petitions
The Citizens' Petitions are a system through which citizens in general as well as institutions can make requests to the Congress of the Republic directly, online. Citizens' requests are sent to the corresponding departments of Congress for follow-up. To make their request, users must fill out a form and write their request. Since its establishment in 2001, just over 30,000 requests have been received. However, only 15% of these requests have been answered by any congressional body.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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