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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... usaid, the Department of Justice, the State Department, and the Drug Enforcement Agency, to name just a few of the many players. (See Salas 2001 for one of the few written discussions of the differences.) There are also frequent errors ...
... usaid objectives. See Blair and Hansen (1994) for an official agency statement, heralding the shift to access goals and a downgrading of institutional strengthening (called “capacity building”). 7. A series of country studies conducted ...
... usaid (2002b) and Burbank and Friedman (2002), for a more nuanced approach. 22. It was of course preceded by the law and development movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Although the two share many characteristics, law and development (see ...
... usaid workers used to joke that, when a congressional or other U.S. delegation visited, it was well to determine whether they were human rights advocates or crime fighters so as to know which message to push. 29. See Chapter 1 for a ...
... (usaid) was. 29. See Chapter 1 for a discussion of these institutions and their peculiar development in Latin America. 30. Many of these activities are discussed in Hammergren (1998a, 1998b, 1998c, and 1998d). For a lengthy and 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 |