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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... donor programs. Differences between grants (used by bilateral donors) and loans (by the multilateral banks) seem to escape many of the early critics. The World Bank is still charged with having supported a large judicial reform project ...
... donor intervention where it appeared inadvisable; and criticized it when it occurred. In this regard, the past decade has seen a dramatic change. There has been a proliferation of books and articles describing reforms in a number of the ...
... ); and Rico et al. (1993). Thome (1992) is also relevant. Although this work was commissioned by usaid, the findings influenced other donors as well. 8. If this was ever a unique conclusion, it by twenty years of reforms 3.
... donors, especially the United States. The latter added an interest in prosecuting state agents who had perpetrated ... Donor concerns often were realized in funding of special investigative units or diplomatic pressures to resolve ...
... Donors usually collaborated in setting up judicial schools but provided little more than moral support to the other measures. The Spanish assistance agency is one notable exception. Because Spain has a council system, the Spaniards ...
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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 |