Constitutional Referendum of Ecuador 2008
The Constitutional Referendum of Ecuador 2008 was an agency convened to approve or reject the new constitutional bill drafted by the National Constituent Assembly of 2007. The process was organized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Span. TSE). The referendum was attended by 7 400 000 people and the result was the approval of the 2008 Constitution with the support of more than 63% of the participants. The new National Constitution was officially published and came into force that same year.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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