Debate on the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC)
Debate Código de Processo Civil was an online debate held by the Ministry of Justice in 2011 to openly discuss with experts and interested citizens the reform of the Code of Civil Procedure. The debate received around 2.000 comments and it was, then, taken to the National Congress where it was discussed until 2015 when it was sanctioned by former President Dilma Rousseff. The citizen participation was an important element throughout all the discussion of the new text. Even after the online debate had ended, the commission working on the new text received more than 80.000 e-mails and 200 books with suggestions and studies.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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