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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... goals—the reduction of civil violence. Whereas donors began by funding extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own adr facilities has also led to their inclusion in donor projects. In some sense, the adr ...
... goals and related activities. In descending order, they are presented from the least to most instrumental in focus. The objectives are presented with their logical activities and results. It should be noted that many reforms are not ...
... goals and activities reforms that often work unselfconsciously on parallel tracks.61 Moreover the. Objectives Building a strong, professional judiciary as an independent political institution Judicial modernization as a goal in itself or ...
... goals may be associated with a narrower range of means (some of them not even logically related) or means may be completely disassociated from their ends. Certain activities the judiciary favors (training, buildings, equipment) may be ...
... goals, are combined because of their use of many of the same activities and justifications. These individual treatments also discuss effects and problems arising from the compartmentalized pursuit of goals. The sequencing varies from ...
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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 |