The Social Parliamentary System
The Social Parliamentary System was a mechanism of participation designed to create channels of communication between citizens and representatives of the National Assembly about the legislation being discussed in the chamber. The Venezuelan parliament initiated these practices in January 2006 with three legal reform projects: the Local Planning Councils Act (CLPP), the Intergovernmental Fund for Decentralization (Fides) Act, and the Special Economic Allowances Act (LAEE). By the end of 2006, 11 days of the social parliamentary system had been held, making up 21% of the 46 laws passed during that year.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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