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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... World Bank's chief counsel, made the determination that governance and some aspects of judicial reform were within the Bank's mandate because of their relevance for economic growth. He is also credited with the decision that criminal ...
... World 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 ...
... World Bank group. In conducting survey research on attitudes toward citizen security, his team found that ... World Bank's tools for measuring judicial performance demonstrate a similar point. The World Bank Institute's rule of law ...
... World 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 ...
... world, Latin Americans continue to have their own distinctive approach to the issues. The regional linkage of democracy building, human rights, and an end to political impunity has been joined to an emphasis on economic impacts, but ...
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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 |