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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... Bank's first project in Venezuela brought a cutback in these investments, the idb was never affected, and the World Bank eventually returned to financing infrastructure.36 The mdbs also found stronger support for their judicial reform ...
... Bank's tools for measuring judicial performance demonstrate a similar point. The World Bank Institute's rule of law indicator (Kaufman et al. 1999, 2002) highlights the level of judicial corruption, thus explaining why some of the ...
... Bank view, see Dakolias (2001) and World Bank, Legal Vice Presidency (2002, 2003a, 2003b). Blair and Hansen (1994) mark a shift to access in usaid programs. Their strategic framework demotes institution building (called capacity ...
... Brasil, amb) associations have in fact protested this linkage as a proglobalization plot, promoted by the World Bank among others. See Calvalcanti Melo Filho (2003). 57. Noteworthy here are the “faceless judges” used in Peru 18 ...
... Bank discussion, April 30, 2002. 56. See Fionda (1995), for a comparative treatment of prosecutorial powers. Fennell et al. (1995), Jacob et al. (1996), and Kagan (2001) also cover these. 57. Blankenburg (1996, 289). See also chapters ...
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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 |