Council for National Economy
The Council for National Economy was created by Law No. 17,935, of 2005 and by regulatory decree 299/006, in compliance with the mandate of article 206 of the National Constitution, dating from 1934. It is an advisory and honorary body composed by 40 members, out of which 14 represent active and passive workers, and another 14 represent active and passive employers. The participants are called upon to represent the economic, professional, social and cultural interests of the country, and are summoned to this body by the constitutional text to provide opinions to the public powers and legislative commissions.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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