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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... potential or dampened the enthusiasm for arming new programs. Courts, which once regarded the reforms with utmost suspicion, now have become proponents in their own right. They have been joined by a wide variety of domestic and ...
... potentially contradictory ends they were supposed to pursue. While the Latin American reformers were most interested in new. 25. This movement goes back to the 1960s and the Latin American model codes movement. See Llobet Rodríguez (1993) ...
... potentially positive result was that many countries also took heed of the studies and decided that an investment in improving justice might indeed produce economic growth and attract foreign investment. Not all were quite as ...
... ) and Golub (2003) offer discussions on the potential for incorporating these mechanisms in overall strategies, but this is as far as the literature has gone. 50. One significant exception was a usaid project undertaken in 16 introduction.
... potential for resolving performance problems or in fact recognize that the latter exist. As one Argentine provincial court succinctly put it, “We want computers because we want to be modern.” This should come as no surprise in a region ...
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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 |