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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... success. They almost inevitably find major shortcomings in a series of design and implementation flaws or in participants' failure to tackle the fundamental causes of poor performance. In the majority view, most reforms are still on the ...
... success vary. The first section of this work looks in greater detail at a series of the most common approximations. Whereas some authors attempt to summarize the goals in terms of a short list of common goals—access, efficiency, and ...
... success. A second is that there really is no universal consensus on the aims and content of reforms, whether in Latin America or worldwide. Behind this is a lack of agreement on the contemporary judicial role. Although both points will ...
... Success Better public image. Over longer run, fewer complaints; over shorter run, more judges disciplined, dismissed for cause More efficient service, more cases resolved, backlog reduction, fewer delays in resolving cases More rulings ...
... success is often measured by the extent to which new procedures are adopted. Criminal justice is not the only partial reform where such strategic shortcuts have confused the issue of what would constitute success. It is, however, a very ...
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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 |