Justice Reform and Development
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Justice Reform and Development

Rethinking Donor Assistance to Developing and Transitional Countries

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Justice Reform and Development

Rethinking Donor Assistance to Developing and Transitional Countries

About this book

This book explores the objectives pursued in donor programs, the methods used to advance them, and the underlying assumptions and strategies. It emphasizes the unexpected and sometimes unpleasant consequences of ignoring not only political and societal constraints but also advances in our technical approaches to performance improvement, the one area where the First World has a comparative advantage. The geographic scope of the work is broad, incorporating examples from Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region as well as from several First World nations.

Justice Reform and Development examines First World assistance to justice or "rule of law" reforms in developing and transitional societies, arguing that its purported failure is vastly exaggerated, largely because of unrealistic expectations as to what could be accomplished. Change nonetheless is needed if the programs are to continue and would be best based on targeting specific performance problems, incorporation of donor countries' experience with their own reforms, and greater attention to relevant research.

While contributing to an on-going debate among practitioners and academics involved in justice programs, this book will also be accessible to readers with little exposure to the topics, especially advanced undergraduate and graduate students in law, political science and areas studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780415739924
eBook ISBN
9781317810254
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. List of abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 A brief overview of three decades of donor reforms
  9. 2 What is meant by failure?
  10. 3 Judicial independence, as promoted and as practiced
  11. 4 Improving performance: experience from more and less developed countries
  12. 5 Reform as access to formal and informal mechanisms
  13. 6 The extra-sector impacts of justice reform
  14. 7 The next steps
  15. References
  16. Index