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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... economies; deter crime and civil violence; reduce levels of societal conflict; support the development of legitimate ... economic and social practices, Simplification of procedural codes, • Modification of legal codes and procedures to ...
... economic measures, the fund expressed concern about the lack of control over the judiciary. Peru's experience is also very recent, but the post-Fujimori constitutional tribunal has begun to overturn some decisions of the prior ...
... economies (first in the former Soviet Bloc) and its connection to judicial performance; and third, the discovery, by ... economic globalization, and an increasing reliance on the judiciary to resolve political conflicts, once handled by ...
... economic growth and explicitly prohibited political involvement). The initial response was to focus on civil and commercial law, which was believed most relevant to the economic mandate.34 Timing was also critical. Donors had extended ...
... economic growth.38 The positive findings provided further justification for the programs, though, as critics continually note, the nature of their guidance was fairly ambiguous and the methodologies themselves were not above question ...
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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 |