Plebiscite on constitutional reform
The plebiscite on constitutional reform was convened by the National Executive and took place in October 2020. In the plebiscite, the idea of designing a new Constitution to replace the current one was put to vote. Chileans were also asked, if a new Constitution was to be written, what type of body would be in charge of this task. Regarding the latter, citizens had to choose between a Mixed Constitutional Convention composed in equal parts of popularly elected members and parliamentarians in exercise of their functions, and a Constitutional Convention composed exclusively of popularly elected members. 78.27% of the participants voted in favor of the creation of a new Constitution, and regarding the body in charge of writing it, the winning option was a Constitutional Convention.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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