Municipal Plebiscite (Popular Consultation)
The plebiscite is the popular consultation by means of which the inhabitants of a canton (municipality) speak out on a matter of local importance. It is convened by the City Council, by means of an agreement which will inform the Supreme Elections Tribunal of the consultation and which will contain, among other requirements, the following: the date of the plebiscite (with three months allowance) and a clear and detailed definition of the subject to be consulted. In case the plebiscite is rejected, the matter cannot be re-submitted to a popular consultation for two years.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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