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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... create an environment that fosters the development of market-based economies; deter crime and civil violence; reduce levels of societal conflict; support the development of legitimate democratic governance; and reduce social inequities ...
... create. This treatment should also help external observers understand why such discussions are increasingly necessary and what the arguments represent. a brief history of the contemporary latin american judicial reforms As must be ...
... create or strengthen market economies (first in the former Soviet Bloc) and its connection to judicial performance; and third, the discovery, by development theorists, of second-generation (institutional) reforms.24 The different timing ...
... create impediments. Perhaps it is rampant crime and not slow debt collection that most deters investors. These issues will be revisited in subsequent chapters. The point for now is that the arguments about economic impacts behind the ...
... create constitutional courts or enhance the judicial review powers of supreme courts. The initiative is linked to ... created in 1989, was soon receiving and deciding 2,000 and then 10,000 cases annually, over a ten-year period ...
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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 |