Municipal Plebiscite of Peñalolén
The Municipal Plebiscite of Peñalolén was called in order to approve (Yes) or disapprove (No) a series of changes in the Municipal Regulatory Plan promoted by the municipality. The plebiscite was of a binding and mandatory nature, and 71 530 people voted. Of these, 47.9% of the citizens voted "Yes" and 52.1% voted "No", thus rejecting the proposals announced by the municipality. The triumph of the "No" was seen as a victory by social movements opposing the actions of large real estate companies.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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