Brazil

Indicative Classification

Classificação Indicativa was an online public consultation held by the Ministry of Justice?s Secretary for Legislative Affairs and National Secretary for Justice and took place from November 18, 2010 to April 27, 2011. During that period, 2.305 people participated and and the website received around 13,500 visits. The goal was to create an interactive platform for the rating process and an open dialogue about the revision of the regulation on rating processes, that unified the process regulated before by five different normative text. The openness, inclusion and transparency sought by the online debate was to highlight the importance the of an informative debate versus the creation censorship that took place in rating process during the military dictatorship.

Institutional design

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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
single
Mode of selection of participants
open 
Type of participants
citizens civil society private stakeholders  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields a binding decision  
Co-Governance
yes 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

Sources

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