Plebiscite on Brazil?s form and system of government
The plebiscite on Brazil?s form and system of government vote took place on April 21st, 1993. As part of Brazil?s democratization process, the Federal Constitution of 1988 determined the realization of a plebiscite to decide whether the country should have a republican or a monarchist regime, and if the system of government should be presidential or parliamentary. The majority of the voters were in favor of the republican regime (86.6%) and of the presidential system (69.2%). Thus, the country returned to the political structure it had from the proclamation of the Republic until the beginning of the dictatorship.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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