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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... efforts to improve criminal justice proceedings do consider efficiency, but only on a secondary plane. In other cases, the ends pursued really are different, and both the external critics and the reform designers either fail to see the ...
... 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 great deal in twenty years, and ...
... efforts to provide legal assistance to indigent criminal defendants. Probably, it took a turn to noncriminal justice to create an interest in the positive service aspects of judicial output and the fact that for many citizens they were ...
... efforts to promote adr or to provide special or small claims courts for the rural poor. A second area also receiving more attention in recent years is that of constitutional and legal controls, or the judiciary's checks and balance ...
... efforts appear to be attempting, explicitly or implicitly. Admittedly, some complex and many unidimensional reform ... effort, despite the still enormous obstacles to accessing information from judiciaries or donors; however, many of the ...
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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 |