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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... economic growth and attract foreign investment. Not all were quite as disingenuous as an extraregional example, Cambodia, which in 1996 was proposing to rewrite its entire legal framework on the assumption that modern laws would bring ...
... economic impacts behind the mdbs' and other actors' entrance into judicial reform in general and in areas such as delay reduction and commercial law are only partly supported by the evidence and, whether supported or not, provide ...
... economic impacts, but judicial reform (as the creation of a strong, politically independent judiciary) has tended to be seen as more of an end in itself. In fact, attempts to emphasize its instrumental nature, especially in terms of the ...
... economic impacts.58 It was somewhat later that democratizing themes and the judiciary's political role began to receive attention. Furthermore, whereas in Latin America, a usually abysmal public image has not affected an escalating ...
... economic cases to courts or formal alternative forums, faster resolution, economic growth? Major Promoters Judges, civic interest groups, donors, and international ngos Government, donors, the judiciary (but more for the inputs than the ...
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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 |