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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... civil rights; create an environment that fosters the development of market-based economies; deter crime and civil violence; reduce levels of societal conflict; support the development of legitimate democratic governance; and reduce ...
... civil conflicts in that region. The first project was in El Salvador, where the murder of four U.S. religious workers was a special interest for the U.S. Government. See Popkin (2000), Prillaman (2000, 39–73), Spence and Vickers (1994) ...
... civil and commercial law, which was believed most relevant to the economic mandate.34 Timing was also critical. Donors had extended their programs to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where market development was accorded the ...
... civil rights, respectively (Piano and Puddington 2005, 123). Two of the World Bank's tools for measuring judicial performance demonstrate a similar point. The World Bank Institute's rule of law indicator (Kaufman et al. 1999, 2002) ...
... civil violence. Whereas donors began by funding extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own adr facilities has also led to their inclusion in donor projects. In some sense, the adr movement has a life of ...
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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 |