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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... evaluations of their work. A final question is thus how the various reform participants can overcome less helpful past practices and the incentive systems underlying them and so adopt a more collaborative approach to identifying what ...
... evaluate progress and detect problems; and • A variety of general institutional strengthening measures to combat traditional weaknesses and vices that would also impede the code's effective enactment. Not all programs have included all ...
... evaluations suggest, they are far from. 29. See Riego (2002) for a summary of the findings in the first four evaluations. J. E. Vargas (2005) provides an up-to-date but less detailed summary of the entire evaluation effort. 30. fores ...
... evaluations uncovered, I would suggest that a series of initial assumptions weakened the process of planning and implementing the new reforms. Some have now been corrected; others have neither been recognized nor caught in the evaluation ...
... evaluations do make some attempt to do this, but it is very narrow. Costs are measured only in terms of budgetary allocations, and transparency seems restricted to attendance at oral hearings. 42. As Stepán (1994) notes, and most ...
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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 |