Special Mixed Committees
The Special Mixed Committees are bodies formed by the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in order to study a particular matter or the fulfillment of a mission. Unlike the rest of the commissions established by law, these can be formed by people who are not legislators, who in their capacity as advisers, have the right to speak but not to vote. In fact, the Special Mixed Committees empower citizens, who are represented by specialists in certain issues, to participate in the debate that arises within the legislative sphere. This way, they can contribute with arguments and points of view on particular topics convened by the Legislative Assembly.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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