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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... proposed the transition to an accusatory proceedings, featuring investigation by an independent prosecutor (rather than a judge), provision of defense counsel who would conduct his own investigation, oral trials in which both the ...
... proposed and sometimes adopted in Latin American reforms as a way of “democratizing justice.” Second, even if the mechanism does work in its country of origin, its performance there depends on a broader institutional environment—and its ...
... advancing a proposal to privatize a part of prison services, a move it claims will cut costs and eliminate problems of abusive staff. 1. This expression has become almost a mantra with the 52 five approaches to judicial reform.
... proposals feature a computer for just about everyone except the coffee servers and clean-up crew.9 The result tends to be a judiciary with modern equipment using the same antiquated procedures as before. Courts increasingly demand ...
... proposed, government-funded purchase, suspecting its administrative staff was rigging the bids. A later idb project in El Salvador was plagued by problems with contracting, especially for infrastructure. 16. Subsequent backlog reduction ...
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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 |