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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... issues traditionally seen by the courts. This is only a partial, illustrative list, but it should be evident that it contains internal contradictions. Although individual reforms often mix and match several objectives and activities ...
... issues being adjudicated, outcomes have become less predictable, both at the trial and appeal levels. Efficiency-enhancement mechanisms have in some cases posed new barriers to poor users, as demonstrated by a marked reduction in annual ...
... issues (and many others), see Binder and Obando (2004). 31. Although many donors are not quite as much on the cutting edge as they like to believe, a review of the contents of conferences and summary publications they finance is a good ...
... issue of defining “judicial development.” Absent a structural (what a developed judiciary looks like) or functional (how it operates) definition, the researchers relied on public opinion surveys or expert assessments, asking panels of ...
... issues will be revisited in subsequent chapters. The point for now is that the arguments about economic impacts ... issue of access or the provision of judicial services to groups traditionally excluded from their benefits. Rather ...
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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 |