Citizen Consultation
Citizen Consultation is a mechanism for citizen participation contemplated in article 73 of Law No. 18.575, on the General Administrative Foundations of the State, which operates as a space for citizens to participate and incorporate their opinions regarding the improvement of Public management. It is configured as a tool that seeks to gather the opinions of citizens regarding specific topics and policies of current interest. It displays virtual documents that contain a certain governmental commitment on matters of citizen interest with respect to plans, policies and programs. This consultation process aims to generate a response from authorities that takes into consideration the responses and commitments derived from the proposals that emerged during the consultation. In 2016, Chile registered 57 citizen consultations on various topics.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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