Referendum on the marketing of firearms and ammunition
The Referendum on the marketing of firearms and ammunition occurred in Brazil on October 23rd, 2005. Given the importance of the matter, it was already provided for by the Statute of Disarmament, which proposes the deliberation of Article 35 of the statute itself. The article states the following: "The marketing of firearms and ammunition is prohibited throughout national territory, except for the entities referred to in Article 6 of this law". The Senate established that it should be realized on July 7th, 2005. Article 2 of the decree stated that the consultation would be made with the following question: ?Should the marketing of firearms and ammunition be prohibited in Brazil?". Voters could answer "yes" or ?no" to the question, or abstain or nullify their votes. The final result was 59,109,265 votes rejecting the proposal (63.94%), while 33,333,045 voted "yes" (36.06%).
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
- no
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