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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... approach; the few examples of proactive reform (for example, modernization) in which proponents were clearer about the solutions than about the problems have faced their own setbacks. Nonetheless, it is ... approaches to judicial reform.
... the judge. These hearings were frequently ignored, or reduced to depositions conducted by low-level courtroom staff. 13. Stepán (1994, 187) reports, however, that depositions taken by 30 five approaches to judicial reform.
... , creating a mindset that the new codes had problems breaking. 20. See Hammergren (1998e, 120–25) for a discussion of these practices in Peru. 21. See Maier et al. (1993), Davis and Lillo (1996), 32 five approaches to judicial reform.
... approach, notably Guatemala in 1992, Colombia in1991, and Argentina in 1994, quickly demonstrated that nothing would be so automatic. Since that time the strategy has been amplified to include • A period of ... approaches to judicial reform.
... approach, and it is not surprising that Costa Rica's statistics indicate a median time for case disposition far longer than the period for which the code has been in effect. Regardless of the code's details ... approaches to judicial reform.
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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 |