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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... strategies.8 Each of them incorporates a different vision of the judiciary's essential role in and impact on broader ... strategy or one augmenting the judiciary's ability to check governmental abuses. Sometimes this is just a matter of ...
... strategic framework demotes institution building (called capacity building) to a lower position. See usaid (2000 ... strategies, but this is as far as the literature has gone. 50. One significant exception was a usaid project undertaken ...
... strategies outlined above in the Latin American context. Two of the objectives, modernization. 61. One wonders, for example, when the mdbs will recognize that their new emphasis on access and public interest law may soon have the courts ...
... strategies may well overstate the strategic content of many reform interventions. The treatments represent ideal types, based on what certain general categories of efforts appear to be attempting, explicitly or implicitly. Admittedly ...
... strategic shortcuts have confused the issue of what would constitute success. It is, however, a very good example of these characteristics, for which reason they are discussed in more depth in this section. the status quo ante and its ...
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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 |