Judicial governance dimensions and their appointment to the Brazilian judicial system

The Brazilian justice management faces chronic difficulties of accessibility of lower income population to justice, the slowness and low effectiveness of the judicial decisions. In order to contribute to the analysis of solutions to these difficulties, the objectives of this paper are to identify dimensions related to the concept of judicial governance studied in recent empirical researches, and discuss how these dimensions can push the performance of the Brazilian judicial system. The following dimensions were identified: Judicial Independence, Accountability, Accessibility to Justice; Structure of the Judiciary; Strategic Resources of the Judiciary, and Judiciary's Performance. Faced with the scarcity of empirical studies on management of the judiciary, specially on Brazilian courts, research proposals are made, including the following: (a) to evaluate the influence of the development of strategic resources in the performance of the judiciary; and (b) to evaluate the impact of increased judicial independence and accountability on reducing corruption of the Brazilian judicial system.

Accountability; judicial management; performance; independence; judicial governance