1995 Popular Consultation
The Popular Consultation of 1995 was convened by President Sixto Durán Ballén to address the problems mainly related to institutional performance and social rights, including the possibility of the dissolution of Congress, the right to choose the social security model, and the decentralization of public services. Unlike the previous year's consultation, in this case, the issues raised in the debate were rejected by the populace. The topics of discussion were varied, covering points such as reform of the security system, administrative decentralization, reform of judicial bodies and the relationship between the executive and legislative branches. In particular, the president's ability to dissolve Congress. It was regulated by the Constitution of 1978 and about 3 857 000 people voted.
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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