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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... 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 international players who also want a part in defining what ...
... programs.2 Despite their insider's view, or better-documented outsider's perspective, the authors have been no less harsh in their assessments of the movement's achievements or of its chances of eventual success. They almost inevitably ...
... programs, • Introduction of monitoring, evaluation systems, • • Judicial disciplinary systems, Judicial ethics codes and citizen complaint services, • • • Modernization of legal framework to regulate new economic and social practices ...
... programs or insisting on larger investments in nonpriority areas. For the first time in the region, there are criticisms of policymaking by unaccountable judges.13 Judicial councils and other new governance mechanisms demonstrate no ...
... programs that attempt to improve the performance and impact of court or sector operations. Sector is itself a vague term, but it is usually taken to encompass those institutions most closely related to the courts—police, prosecution ...
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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 |