Citizen Plebiscite for Education
The Citizen Plebiscite for Education was a self-appointed petition by civil society sectors during 2011 to vote on matters of for-profit education with public funds, in particular, and also with regards to the modification of the educational system in various areas, such as cost free education and the nationalization of the education system. About 1 500 000 people participated in the event, with the option of pushing for greater levels of nationalization of the Chilean education system. After some years of this initiative, the Chilean Congress approved the bill in which, in addition to prohibiting the profiteering of an education system with public funds, was the end of co-payment and selection of students by the state.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- 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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