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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... corruption and incompetence. After some slight improvements during the early 1990s, a recent poll (December 2002) in Lima asking respondents to name the institution in which they had least trust, found the courts being mentioned ...
... corrupt, and especially those remaining from or being reinstated after the end of the Fujimori government. 16. The Mexican federal judiciary, which currently receives about 1.4 percent of the federal budget is campaigning for a ...
... corrupt, and incompetent. See usaid (2002b) and Burbank and Friedman (2002), for a more nuanced approach. 22. It was of course preceded by the law and development movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Although the two share many ...
... corruption. 27. U.S. support began in Central America at the end of the various 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. ...
... corrupt, politically dependent judiciaries and judges were unlikely to apply the new codes in the spirit in which they were written. Throughout the region, countries adopted judicial councils, representative bodies usually located ...
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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 |