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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... salaries and career status for judges and other personnel; new organizations and substantial restructuring of traditional ones; a greater penetration of the national territory with services now delivered in more areas and to more of the ...
... salary levels and budgets, which sometimes were also under the control of councils, and the development of training programs. Donors usually collaborated in setting up judicial schools but provided little more than moral support to the ...
... salaries for public-sector jobs tended to be low, it was not uncommon for those holding them to have outside activities, despite the legal prohibitions on doing so.17 Because most Latin American police forces are themselves in need of ...
... salaries for the judges, but not for the administrators. Among the prominent casualties of this policy were the judicial school and the judicial archives. The archives, one of the major achievements of the reforms conducted under the ...
... salary bonuses paid to judges and staff who met quotas. Once the bonuses disappeared, so did the improvements. The experiments have been expanded to civil trial and some appellate courts in Lima and other major cities. Once the judges ...
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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 |