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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... strategy for both goals, however, has remained the same—the introduction of an accusatory, oral criminal justice ... strategies might have been adopted. By the time it came to the fore, the strategic die was already cast. “Orality” is ...
... strategy has become more sophisticated and complex. The earliest reformers simply attempted to draft and enact a new law. As they were fond of saying, the rest would be worked out later. The earliest attempts with that approach, notably ...
... strategy does raise some doubts. Can an investigative police function without a broader police reform? Can a corrupt, disorganized, politicized, incompetent judiciary, or, still worse, public prosecution successfully carry out its new ...
... strategy, the process has been difficult. As the most concerted effort to introduce change in judicial operations, it has still not been even moderately successful anywhere in just getting the various actors to carry out their functions ...
... strategic paradigms and tactical shortcuts On the basis of my own observations, donor assessments of their own projects,34 and what the ceja evaluations uncovered, I would suggest that a series of initial assumptions weakened the ...
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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 |