Council of Museums
The Council of Museums, created in 2013 by Law No. 19.037, is a body that advises the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) on the formulation of policies related to museums. The Council is coordinated by the National Directorate of Culture and the General Directorate of the Secretariat of the Ministry. Representatives of governmental bodies, departmental and private museums, one representative appointed by the University of the Republic, one representative appointed by private museums and one representative appointed by private education institutes participate in the Council.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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