Costa Rica: Towards the Third Republic facing 21st Century Challenges
The Third Republic is the name of a proposal that, from the perspective of social and productive organizations, poses a vision for the country's future. The proposal aims at facilitating governance -and not at governing-; it aspires to function beyond political-electoral times; and to participate in it requires a commitment to work for the common good of the country, and not just for corporatist agendas. It aims to promote a sustainable socio-economic environment that fosters national development under the light of the common good of all Costa Rican citizens. This process responds to the concern of business, labor, social economy, professional and rural poor organizations that subscribe to it, in order to be propositional and fulfill its goals.
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
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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