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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Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. judicial reform. The U.S. Agency for International Development (usaid) was especially important here, because the U.S courts were the ...
... performance of national court systems.39 Where local experts ranked their own courts, there was the issue of cross-national comparability. Standards vary, and a good court system facing demanding experts might get a far lower rating ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. organizations that their programs benefited principally state and elite actors, but were not contributing to the new battle on poverty ...
... performance, and the political role currently played by the judiciary. Not surprisingly, judicially initiated reforms tend to be least instrumental in nature, focusing more on enhancing the courts' status and powers. Those promoted by ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. reforms that often work unselfconsciously on parallel tracks.61 Moreover the choice of activities often seems to operate separately ...
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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 |