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Author Armytage, Livingston.

Title Reforming Justice : a Journey to Fairness in Asia.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Contents Cover; REFORMING JUSTICE: A Journey to Fairness in Asia; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1: Introduction; 1 Roadmap; 2 Reform purpose; 3 What is justice -- and why is it important?; 4 Evaluating endeavour; 5 Case studies of practice; 6 Generalised findings and key empirical propositions; 7 Conclusions: a theory of justice reform; PART 1: Judicial reform enterprise; Introduction to Part 1; 2: History and context; 1 Introduction; 2 Context and history; a. Three moments or five waves?; b. Early days: USAID's law and development.
C. Structural adjustment, the Washington Consensus' and poverty reductiond. 'Rule of law' revival and democracy; e. But what is the rule of law' orthodoxy -- a blind man's elephant?; f. Shihata's long shadow -- judicial reform at the World Bank; g. Governance and institutionalism: from enabling to capable state; h. A more comprehensive approach: embracing social and human dimensions; i. Towards equity?; j. Fragility, safety and security; 3 Conclusions; 3: Nature and critique of reforms; 1 Introduction; 2 Nature of reforms -- the standard package'; a. Thin' or thick' reform?
3 Mounting perceptions of disappointment -- the performance gap'4 Reinvention; a. Convergence with human rights and empowerment; b. Engagement in the informal customary sector and legal pluralism; c. Political economy -- DfID's approach to power; d. Acknowledging the distributional dimension of judicial reform; e. Constitutionalism and the politics of allocation; 5 Conclusions; 4: Theories of reform; 1 Introduction; a. Theory, practice and the use of dichotomy; 2 Theorists -- philosophy and justification; a. Foundations of classical thinking: justice, equality and equity.
B. Visions from the Enlightenment of the state and individuali. The fulcrum of liberalism; ii. The tipping point of neo-liberalism -- and the contest over economics; iii. The significance of liberalism; c. The contest of modern philosophy; i. Institutionalism; ii. North's rules of the game; iii. Sen's transformative vision of human capability; 3 Conclusions; 5: Empirical evidence; 1 Introduction; 2 Sufficiency of the economic justification for development; a. The role of empirical evidence in the theory: practice dichotomy; b. Historical evidence of the market economy.
C. Development's failure to ensure equitable growthd. Conviction, ideology and the selectivity of empirical validation; 3 Justice and growth -- a synopsis of empirical determinants; a. Transplantation and 'legal-origins' debate; b. New comparative economics and good governance; c. Are institutions trumps?; d. Precepts of independence -- checks and balances; e. Empirical inquiry -- torch beams in the night; 4 Conclusions to Part 1 -- building a better theory; PART 2: Evaluation; Introduction to Part 2; 6: Evaluating aid; 1 Introduction; 2 Key concepts; 3 Purpose and models; a. Professionalisation.
B. From Paris to Accra -- improving development effectiveness.
Summary Livingston Armytage explores how justice reform can be made more effective.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Justice, Administration of -- Asia.
Justice, Administration of.
Asia.
Law reform -- Asia.
Law reform.
Technical assistance, Australian -- Asia.
Technical assistance, Australian.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Armytage, Livingston. Reforming Justice : A Journey to Fairness in Asia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107013827
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