Dominican Republic

Pre-electoral observation: Monitoring of the selection of the presidential candidates of the political parties 2000

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2000 – 2000
Name of organization in charge: Participación Ciudadana
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Pre-electoral observation: Monitoring of the selection of the presidential candidates of the political parties 2000 was launched in order to inform about the internal election process of the three main Dominican parties and evaluate their democratic legitimacy. To do so, one of the most prominent civil society organizations in the Dominican Republic, Participación Ciudadana (PC) (lit. Citizen Participation), observed the party conventions and followed up the press reports that covered the selection widely. The initiative was started in 2000 through PC and included the supervision of the three main Dominican parties (PRSC - Reformist Christian Social Party, PRD - Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, PLD - Dominican Liberation Party) for the selection of its presidential candidates. The organization intended to increase the transparency of the selection process - which they consider one of the pillars of democracy.

Institutional design

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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

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://www.pciudadana.org