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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... donor assistance. As U.S. courts were themselves entering the computer age, it was not long before automation became a ... donors were still involved in Latin America's criminal justice reforms, which left the way open for the banks to ...
... donors, the United Nations, and the number of foundations already working on reform programs could at best finance pilot court administration programs. Because they work with grants, none had the funds to support systemwide replication ...
... donors, took heart from the findings as an indication that they were doing the right thing. One potentially positive result was that many countries also took heed of the studies and decided that an investment in improving justice might ...
... donors encountered additional reasons for advancing in this area. On the judges' side, there was a sincere or ... donor impetus had a similar source—criticism from within and outside their organizations that their programs benefited ...
... donors, the idb has taken a special interest in adr and also added its own twist to the goals—the reduction of civil violence. Whereas donors began by funding extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own ...
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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 |