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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... criminal procedures adopted in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires.30 Some donors (notably the U.S. Agency for International Development [usaid]) have evaluated their own programs, but generally stop short of impact, instead focusing ...
... criminal justice, but also many of the other reforms. sources of underachievement: strategic paradigms and tactical shortcuts On the basis of my own observations, donor assessments of their own projects,34 and what the ceja evaluations ...
... criminal justice processes. In fact, some local critics have suggested reinstating the instructional judge to introduce more accusatorial elements! Colombians characterize the extraordinary powers accorded to their prosecutors (Wscales) ...
... criminal justice. The basic models may condition the acceptable remedies but do not ensure that the best of them will be selected. Academic Code Drafting in an Empirical Vacuum By now, not even the drafters would disagree that the codes ...
... criminal procedures code combined with a Costa Rican prosecutorial law and a Spanish influenced police organization.45 Where external experts assisting the drafters actually came from the respective agencies, the laws might faithfully ...
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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 |