Recall Referendum (Prefects)
The Recall Referendum of August 10, 2008 was carried out to decide the permanence of eight of the nine departmental prefects. In each department the question was: "Do you agree with the continuation of the policies, actions and management by the Prefect of the Department? By law it was established that to revoke the prefects it was necessary to obtain a percentage higher than the percentage obtained when they were elected.
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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