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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... fact was inspired by a series of debates among friends. Our inability to reach agreement on a few fine points of reform produced the first and second chapters, and from there it grew. Thus, to Juan Enrique and Alberto I owe a debt of ...
... facts wrong;1 slighted over the political and practical impediments to rapid change; confused poor planning,. 1. Where ... fact that so many legal changes remain paper transformations at best. Still, critics seem reluctant to credit any ...
... fact, whether the reform practitioners are learning much from one another. One emerging criticism on which many observers agree is that participants are constantly reinventing the wheel, when not attempting to produce one with square ...
... fact, usaid workers used to joke that, when a congressional or other U.S. delegation visited, it was well to determine whether they were human rights advocates or crime fighters so as to know which message to push. 29. See Chapter 1 for ...
... fact that for many citizens they were beyond reach. Both judiciaries and donors encountered additional reasons for advancing in this area. On the judges' side, there was a sincere or calculated interest in improving their image and ...
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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 |