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Envisioning reform : improving judicial performance in Latin America /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammergren, Linn A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Criminal justice reform : human rights, crime control, and other unlikely bedfellows
  • Judicial modernization : increasing the efficiency and efficacy of court actions
  • Developing a professional, institutionally independent judiciary
  • Access to justice : legal assistance, special courts, alternative dispute resolution and beyond
  • Strengthening the judiciary's role as a check on other branches of government
  • Judicial reform as a problem of focus : why the parts don't add up to a coherent whole
  • Improving the knowledge base for judicial reform programs
  • Toward a new strategic model
  • A political agenda for reforming the reforms.