Commune
The Communes are an institution for participation and territorial organization at the local level that mediates between lower structures, such as communal councils, and higher structures, such as the Communal Parliament. They follow the principles of representation and deliberation, and serve as the self-management of public policies in communities (numbering between five or six communal councils). They were implemented through the Organic Law of the Communes (2010), which defines them as "neighboring communities with a shared historical memory, cultural features, and customs, which are recognized in the respective territory and in the productive activities underlying the community?s sustenance, and on which they exercise the principles of sovereignty and protagonist participation as an expression of People's Power." Its constitution is part of the so-called "Communal State" project of Hugo Chavez.
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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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