Lobby Law Project
Lobby Law Project is an initiative that during the years 2013 and 2014 brought together more than 40 civil society organizations interested in improving the democratic quality of lobbying within Chilean public agencies. This project consisted of several incidents, ranging from meetings with specialized parliamentary committees, to the drafting of a regulation to the law once it was approved. At the beginning of 2014, for example, organizations launched a campaign on social networks for all citizens to make observations and comment on the proposal for a model regulation of the Lobby Law developed by Smart Citizen. In July 2014, representatives of the Ciudadano Inteligente (lit. Smart Citizen) Foundation presented the model regulation of the work done by the NGOs to the Ethics and Transparency Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. After this process, in 2016 Chile came to have a national law on lobbying and with a corresponding regulation.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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