Monitoring of the Selection of Nominations in the 2002 Congressional and Municipal Elections
In 2001-2002 the NGO Participación Ciudadana (lit. Citizen Participation) organized a public monitoring of the selection of candidates for the municipal elections in 2002. The three main parties of the Dominican Republic (Partido Revolucionario Dominicana (PRD), Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) y Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC)) were subject to this monitoring. The main objective of the monitoring was to ensure that the municipal elections were executed democratically in preparation and on Election Day itself; and, furthermore that the then newly established rule whereby one third of all candidates should be female was implemented. The monitoring itself was executed by the Network of Volunteers (Red Ciudadana de Voluntarios) under the supervision of Participación Ciudadana. Also, the reporting and publishing was done by the latter, particularly in collaboration with the Dominican media.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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