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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... remains Brazil. Mexico is also a slow starter, and it was only in 2004 that several states adopted new, accusatory codes. Mexico, however, eliminated the instructional judge in the early twentieth century. Local critics complain that ...
... remains to be done. One of the ngos, fores (Foro de Estudios Sobre la Administracion de Justicia [Forum for Studies on the Administration of Justice]), in its study of Buenos Aires Province, in fact concluded that the government was ...
... remains a major focus of their efforts. We began our examination of the various strategies here, not only to respect the historical order, but also because the longer experience allows more time to test the results and mistakes along ...
... remains in place today. For juzgados with a light workload and not very demanding clients, it was adequate. As caseloads increased, it posed obvious difficulties. Except for the opportunities for corruption, Latin Americans had paid ...
... remains only partial. 27. As usaid has stopped doing compulsory project evaluations and decided to place results indicators at an agency level, it is not clear they will have to do so anyway. 28. usaid and the World Bank faced several ...
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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 |