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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... political role began to receive attention. Furthermore, whereas in Latin America, a usually abysmal public image has not affected an escalating demand for court services, in the former Soviet region the problem has more often been ...
... political institution Judicial modernization as a goal in itself or to meet rising demands for greater quantity, different quality of services Strengthening the judiciary's role as an independent check on abuses by other governmental ...
... political dependence, and a series of traditional vices had the most visible impact on citizen well-being. Political intervention could hardly be blamed on the legal tradition. Local reformers, however, believed this and many other ...
... political costs. Most countries have simply been unable to realize this challenge, and thus the. 63. This is not always an advantage. In Mexico, it is generally recognized that the judicial police, attached to the public ministry ...
... political and other interests at work, the Ecuadorian court continues to complain that the system financed under a World Bank loan is incomplete and inadequate. A major problem is that the judges and court staff find it difficult to use ...
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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 |