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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... success on its own terms. The big picture is essential to achieving smaller goals as well. Latin American judges are usually less enamored of the accent on efficiency. They commonly argue that they are already overburdened with work and ...
... success was based on special circumstances. Unassisted equipment purchases have not worked even that well. When the Costa Ricans added automation to their modernization efforts in the early 1990s, a common practice was to assign ...
... successful installation of the new hardware and software, rather than any further transformation of court outputs. Where practices such as usaid's introduction of results indicators forced movement to measures of impact, no one ...
... successes. So far no country in the region has been able to adopt the new models across the board.30 Peru's self ... success was largely due to the salary bonuses paid to judges and staff who met quotas. Once the bonuses disappeared ...
... success in that area. A study of 1998 filings in Lima's trial and justice of the peace courts indicates that both had a much better record (time to resolution and percentage of cases disposed) in resolving debt collection cases despite ...
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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 |