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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... questions; and sometimes frustrated me to the point of having to get my ideas down on paper. The present book in fact was inspired by a series of debates among friends. Our inability to reach agreement on a few fine points of reform ...
... question of making an institution of government carry out its official role, but rather of enhancing its contribution to a number of broader social projects. Well-functioning judicial systems are supposed to control. 4. A detailed ...
... question the historical model of the judiciary's role and operations, which suggests that it may itself require modification.10 The various Latin American approaches to reform in some sense arise as extrapolations from this traditional ...
... questions loom large: access to what,19 efficiency of what,20 and independence from whom?21 As we will see, even those pursuing an apparently. 18. Most notably Prillaman (2000), but others have also used these categories or other ...
... questions quite differently. They also are quite capable of ignoring the other elements of the short list. A first point then is that all judicial reforms are not the same and that, evaluated in their own terms, they require different ...
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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 |