Envisioning Reform: Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin AmericaJudicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren’s book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I’s overview of the reform movement’s history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action. |
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... assessments of the movement's achievements or of its chances of eventual success. They almost inevitably find major ... assessing its achievements are universally relevant. When Latin America's current round of judicial reforms began in.
... assessing success. A second is that there really is no universal consensus on the aims and content of reforms, whether in Latin America or worldwide. Behind this is a lack of agreement on the contemporary judicial role. Although both ...
... assess them more objectively. The reforms received financial backing and additional impetus from foreign donors, especially the United States. The latter added an interest in prosecuting state agents who had perpetrated abuses.27 In the ...
... assessments, asking panels of local or international informants to rank the performance of national court systems.39 Where local experts ranked their own courts, there was the issue of cross-national comparability. Standards vary, and a ...
... assessment of the results. 48. See Álvarez and Highton (2000) for a review of programs throughout the region. 49. Both Faundez (2005b) and Golub (2003) offer discussions on the potential for incorporating these mechanisms in overall ...
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Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren Limited preview - 2010 |
Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn A. Hammergren No preview available - 2007 |