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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... goals and a downgrading of institutional strengthening (called “capacity building”). 7. A series of country studies conducted by Florida International University summarize the initial situation as perceived by foreign and local ...
... goals relating to costs, access, efficiency, efficacy, and basic fairness at some point come into conflict with each other, and thus require fundamental political choices.9 These same. 8. If this was ever a unique conclusion, it by now ...
... goals have indeed been advanced—as witnessed by higher budgets; better salaries and career status for judges and other personnel; new organizations and substantial restructuring of traditional ones; a greater penetration of the national ...
... goals in terms of a short list of common goals—access, efficiency, and independence—these have not figured in all reforms, and, even where they do, they receive different definitions and different emphases.18 As several observers have ...
... goals and the interest of combating crime. When the multilateral development banks (mdbs) entered the scene in the early 1990s, they did so over considerable internal resistance because the judiciary was considered “political.” Hence ...
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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 |