Referendum on the Time Zone in Acre
The Referendum on the Time Zone in Acre took place in 2010 in order to decide whether to maintain the change in the state of Acre?s time zone, which went into effect in 2008. The majority of voters chose to return to the old time zone, rejecting the changes approved in the 2008 law. However, the restoration of the former time zone was not a fast or automatic process: there were political maneuvers and pressure from television stations that protested against the validity of the referendum. Almost three years after the referendum, the decision had not yet been put into force; it was only approved in committees of the Federal Senate in September 2013.
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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