Envisioning Reform : : Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America /

Envisioning Reform : : Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America / / Linn Hammergren.

Judicial 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Hammergren, Linn,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Twenty Years of Reforms and Not a Consensus in Sight
  • Part I: Five approaches to judicial reform
  • 1 Criminal Justice Reform: Human Rights, Crime Control, and Other Unlikely Bedfellows
  • 2 Judicial Modernization: Increasing the Efficiency and Efficacy of Court Actions
  • 3 Developing a Professional, Institutionally Independent Judiciary
  • 4 Access to Justice: Legal Assistance, Special Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Beyond
  • 5 Strengthening the Judiciary's Role as a Check on Other Branches of Government
  • Part II: Problems and remedies
  • 6 Judicial Reform as a Problem of Focus: Why the Parts Don't Add Up to a Coherent Whole
  • 7 Improving the Knowledge Base for Judicial Reform Programs
  • 8 Toward a New Strategic Model
  • 9 A Political Agenda for Reforming the Reforms
  • References
  • Index

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