Bolivia's Autonomous Referendum of 2008
The autonomous referendum in Bolivia was carried out to approve or reject the Statute of Autonomy of four Bolivian departments: Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni, and Pando. Referendums were implemented in Santa Cruz during May, and in Beni, Pando and Tarija during June. The Referendum was approved by majority vote in Santa Cruz, with 85.4%; in Beni, with 80.2%; in Pando, with 81.8%; and in Tarija, with 80.3%.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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