1997 Popular Consultation
The Popular Consultation of 1997 took place in order to ratify President Fabián Alarcón in his office, as well as to consult citizens about convening a new constituent assembly. At that time, Fabián Alarcon was in charge of the government after being appointed by Congress as a result of the fall of Abdalá Bucaram. The Popular Consultation was framed within the regulations of the Constitution of 1978 and more than 4 000 000 people participated.
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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