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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... attention from what two decades of efforts have achieved, the substantial changes produced in the sector's resources, composition, and activities. The appearance of Latin American judiciaries and other sector organizations has changed a ...
... attention, much of it critical. Enhanced powers and resources have increased the judiciary's impact so that how they use them has become much more important. Reform programs had not anticipated these problems and have yet. 13. See Wilson ...
... attention to some other elements: measures to strengthen judicial independence, reduce politicization of the appointment process, and increase the professional quality of judges and other officials and staff and to augment the general ...
... attention to improving the quality of institutions (also called “second-generation reforms), including those of the justice sector. 38. See Kaufmann et al. (1999, 2002), LaPorta and López-de-Silanes (1998), World Bank Institute (1997 ...
... attention in recent years is that of constitutional and legal controls, or the judiciary's checks and balance function. This has been largely an internal initiative and has received little funding from or promotion by donors.50 This is ...
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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 |