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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... practices or the contents of reforms. An additional problem for anyone writing about the region is the rapid pace at which legally mandated procedures and organizational structures change or the fact that so many legal changes remain ...
... practices are not reflected in changes in outputs, or at least not sufficiently to meet increased and more discriminating demands. Over time, public opinion polls show no great improvement in citizen appreciations of the quantity or ...
... practices was inevitable.40 Because international experts often tended to be businessmen, theirs was a one-sided view and measure. Singapore, for example, ranks at the top of many ratings. Reviewers more aware of or concerned about ...
... practices as an alternative source of law but leave numerous unresolved questions as to how this will operate in fact. In. 46. See, for example, Golub (2003), and Golub and McClymont (2000). 47. For a discussion of the World Bank view ...
... practices and the incentive systems underlying them and so adopt a more collaborative approach to identifying what they collectively know and using it to improve their common efforts. PART I five approaches to judicial reform ONE ...
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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 |