Provincial Economic and Social Councils
The Provincial Economic and Social Councils are an organization for consultation and citizen participation at the provincial level in Chile, established by Constitutional Law 19.175 for Government and Regional Administration. The organization?s main mission is to advise the Provincial Governor on exclusively administrative matters, excluding those of the Internal Government. It can also carry out study and research work, requests to regional, provincial or municipal authorities, and present development projects, among other tasks. The organization is chaired by the Provincial Governor and is made up of 24 other members elected by organizations and groups as follows: eight from provincial associations of labor organizations; eight from business and productive associations; three from cultural organizations of the province; three from professional associations, and two from private foundations and corporations dedicated to the promotion of education and science. In addition, members of the Armed Forces of Chile with a seat in the province are members in their own right, as well as directors of higher education establishments also with a seat in the province. The members are elected to four year terms in office and can be re-elected.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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