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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... staff soon recognized the impossibility of scheduling meetings with members of the Procuraduría General (legal and related services for the poor) after 4:00 in the afternoon, because that was when they left for their other jobs. 18. See ...
... staff inspired a change in the new requirement that prisoners not be transferred between penal facilities without judicial permission. As the officials noted, this is fine for ordinary transfers but would not be appropriate under ...
... staff that had never given a thought to the organizational requirements that made their work possible. In some cases, the new procedures simply had to go into effect without new complementary laws, either because local vested interests ...
... is currently advancing a proposal to privatize a part of prison services, a move it claims will cut costs and eliminate problems of abusive staff. 1. This expression has become almost a mantra with the 52 five approaches to judicial reform.
... staff required to draft responses or just move paper around. In fact, most proposals feature a computer for just about everyone except the coffee servers and clean-up crew.9 The result tends to be a judiciary with modern equipment using ...
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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 |