Dominican Republic

Unmask the Corrupt

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2016
Name of organization in charge: Transparency International
Type of organization in charge: international organization
Level: transnational

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: -
Policy Outcome: -

Unmask the Corrupt was a worldwide digital campaign led by Transparency International between 2015 and 2016 . One oUnmask the Corrupt was a worldwide digital campaign led by Transparency International between 2015 and 2016. Among a larger advocacy project against corruption, they held a participatory campaign in which citizens could vote online against the politician or public figure they considered most egregiously corrupt. The nine individuals with the most votes against were be publicly listed as the worlds? symbols of grand corruption in order to demand accountability and increase political pressure in favor of actions against corruption. Dominican Senator Felix Bautista was elected among the top nine with 9786 votes against. f the components of this advocacy effort was a participatory campaign in which citizens could vote online against the politician or public figure they considered most egregiously corrupt. The nine individuals with the most votes against were be publicly listed as the worlds? symbols of grand corruption in order to demand accountability and increase political pressure in favor of actions against corruption. Dominican Senator Felix Bautista was elected among the top nine with 9786 votes against.

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: open
Type of participants: citizens
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.unmaskthecorrupt.org