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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... benefits (in terms of reduction in crime and its impact on society) might move the equation into the black, but this cannot eliminate the need for higher real budgets and those are what citizens first consider. conclusions The Latin ...
... benefits of better caseload management, others have questioned impact on decreasing delays or increasing output. The ... benefit analysis. 7. In effect, many conventional public services should also be assessed in these broader terms. No ...
... benefits, like the implied more basic changes in judicial attitudes, were either not taken seriously or simply ignored by many judicial leaders. Their immediate goals were higher budgets and more equipment, often because they assumed ...
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