Popular Consultation of the Constituent Assembly
The Popular Consultation of the Constituent Assembly took place in 2007 in order to put to vote the convocation of a constituent assembly in Ecuador. This Popular Consultation was convened by the incoming President, Rafael Correa. Around 6 500 000 people participated and 81% of the population was in favor of the new Constitution. This Consultation settled a political conflict between the Congress, which wanted a modification of the existing Constitution, and the Executive, which was in favor of a new Constitution. The latter was the position that prevailed.
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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