Communal Justices of Peace
Communal Justices of Peace are elected to mediate community disputes. In legislation, they are considered as part of the judicial system and the so-called People's Power, i.e. the legal and institutional power that regulates citizen participation in Venezuela. According to legislation, they are part of a community justice system including community and participatory institutions that deal with housing rental conflicts, violence against women, family problems, divorce and marriage, conflicts within Community Councils and other issues. The judges are elected in an electoral process regulated by the Electoral Council of the Communal Councils, in coordination with the National Electoral 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
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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