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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... rule of law reform is more than a semantic exercise. Despite near-universal consensus on its importance, the reform movement has been subjected to external questioning almost since its inception. As its practitioners often complained ...
... rule of law, makes a similar argument. Alvaro Santos has shared with the author several versions of a still unpublished article on how groups within the World Bank complicate that organization's work with their varying approaches to the ...
... rule, no Latin American judiciary scores any higher than 40 percent in terms of citizen approval, and many have approval rates ranging between 10 and 30 percent. See Martínez (1997, 21). The high scorers are Costa Rica and Uruguay ...
... rules and incentive systems shaped behavior. His discussion of institutions was not directed toward encouraging investments in computers and buildings, but absent arguments to the contrary, reforming judicial and other institutions ...
... rule of law indicator (Kaufman et al. 1999, 2002) highlights the level of judicial corruption, thus explaining why some of the country's it ranks lowest (for example, Nicaragua and Paraguay) come out significantly better on the Doing ...
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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 |