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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... supreme court canceled a proposed, government-funded purchase, suspecting its administrative staff was rigging the bids. A later idb project in El Salvador was plagued by problems with contracting, especially for infrastructure. 16 ...
... supreme court, was in similar shape. With few exceptions (Costa Rica, for example), judges saw this as at best a necessary evil and so were unwilling to spend funds to attract good employees or equip them adequately. In the mid-1980s ...
... supreme court, on whose every whim the administrators depended, was to ensure that the various special privileges and allowances accorded to the justices continued to be provided. The court's priorities remain very much in that line ...
... courts have had more luck replacing judges than staff. The Dominican supreme court, which recently forced all judges to compete for their jobs (replacing a substantial number with outsiders), has yet to tackle the staff question ...
... court systems.24 Although the region's judiciaries increasingly support citizens' right to information from the rest ... supreme court's rulings and practices in this area. 26. The Mexican federal and state courts are only now beginning ...
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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 |