Public Hearings
The Public Hearings correspond to a space for dialogue, understood as a citizen right, between the people and the authority of the ministry and / or the public service in question, so that one can publicly express their concerns, demands and proposals from their perspective as a citizen, on matters of public interest. Public hearings may be requested when done so by at least five hundred citizens and / or twenty-five non-profit civil society organizations. They may also be called by the authority or at the request of the simple majority of the Civil Society Council of the respective service. These are established by Law 20.500 of Citizen Participation. By 2012, 89% of the municipalities had reached the figure set for the Public Hearings.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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