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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... experiences and opinions; offered their data, documents, and written thoughts for my consideration; apprised me of other work relevant to my own ponderings; opened their courts and offices so I could make my own observations; invited me ...
... experience in promoting change in the region's judiciaries seems hardly to have tapped the potential or dampened the enthusiasm for arming new programs. Courts, which once regarded the reforms with utmost suspicion, now have become ...
... experience both with local judiciaries and with the reform programs.2 Despite their insider's view, or better-documented outsider's perspective, the authors have been no less harsh in their assessments of the movement's achievements or ...
... experience may be more typical. When Alberto Fujimori staged his auto-golpe in 1992, more than 90 percent of citizens supported his closure of the courts because of rampant corruption and incompetence. After some slight improvements ...
... experience has recently received attention because of difficulties it posed in reaching an agreement with the imf in January, 2002. When judges at all levels consistently overruled the government's emergency economic measures, the fund ...
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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 |