Analysis of relationship between efficiency of justice services and salaries of judges with two-stage DEA method

Deyneli, Fatih

doi:10.1007/s10657-011-9258-3

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“…Given the different work contents and roles that are played by the staff at the courts of first instance, we decided to use two input variables capturing the two main categories of staff that operate at a court level: judges (input 1) and support staff (input 2). This definition of inputs is consistent with previous research [30,33,35,37].…”

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“…There have also been some documented applications of DEA in the justice area. For example, it has been used to assess the efficiency of police forces [24][25][26][27][28] and prosecutor offices [29], and to determine the relationship between efficiency of justice services and salaries of judges in European countries [30].…”

Section: Dea and Its Use To Assess The Efficiency Of Courtsmentioning

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On the need for reform of the Portuguese judicial system – Does Data Envelopment Analysis assessment support it?

Santos

Amado

2014

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The Portuguese judicial system has attracted considerable criticism in recent years and demands for reforms have gained prominence. By using the Data Envelopment Analysis technique and focusing on the performance of 223 Portuguese first instance courts during the period of 2007 to 2011, this research has found evidence that supports some of this criticism and justifies the calls for reforms, better performance and accountability of the judicial system. In particular, our results found a sector with considerable scope for improvement with less than 16 percent of the 223 courts analysed making an efficient use of their resources in each year and with only one third of the courts being considered efficient in at least one of the five years assessed. Whilst the results suggest that improvement can be achieved with better case management, scale factors also seem to play an important role in explaining inefficiency, with most of the inefficient courts being smaller than optimal and with smaller courts being, on average, less efficient than larger ones. The existence of a statistically significant relationship between courts' efficiency and size was confirmed by the Mann-Whitney test. These results indicate considerable scope for improvement and that some of the planned reforms are timely and seem well targeted. However, the results also suggest that efficiency increases matching peers' best practices are not enough to sustainably reduce the prevailing judicial backlog and length of court proceedings in a considerable number of courts. Major changes in the capacity and/or functioning of the Portuguese judicial system might also be required.

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Section: Dea and Its Use To Assess The Efficiency Of Courtsmentioning

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On the need for reform of the Portuguese judicial system – Does Data Envelopment Analysis assessment support it?

Santos

Amado

2014

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“…Peyrache and Zago (2016) analyzed the efficiency of Italian courts of law in [2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008], pointing out that technical inefficiency is about 40% of total inefficiency, court size is 25% and inefficiency of re-allocation is about 35%, suggesting that the adoption of best practices can increase efficiency. Although some research focuses only on the productivity of judges (Deyneli, 2012;Schneider, 2005) and the present study differentiates between own and outsourced human capital. These works discuss performance differences related to educational level, age, experience, and wages.…”

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Productivity Antecedents of Brazilian Courts of Justice: Evidence from Justiça em Números

Louro

Santos

Filho

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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Public sector managers and researchers have emphasized the importance of performance measurement. Nevertheless, few theoretical and empirical studies are found in Brazilian Judiciary Courts' literature. In order to empirically identify which variables (IT investments, own or outsourced human capital) are more relevant for improving productivity, the current research proposes a model using secondary data extracted from the Justiça em Números (Justice in Numbers) report, using structural equation modeling for the analysis. The results suggest that: (a) all variables are relevant for improving productivity in Brazilian Courts, confirming our first three theoretical hypotheses; and (b) own human capital has a greater impact on productivity than outsourced, confirming the fourth. For those who are responsible for reforms, this finding indicates that IT is not the most important investment. However a question remains: Seen as a cure for almost all problems in the public sector, is it possible to improve performance without hard IT investments? For future research there are some additional questions: Why is own human capital more relevant than outsourced? Which variables should be included in the model for improving the general significance? The answers can help improve Brazilian court productivity.

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“…1 The number of articles published on the topic in the journal is quite extensive and, as written, at an increasing pace. For giving a insight of it we may cite here to a few of them since Tullock (1994) on court errors, Benson (1999) on the decision to arbitrate or to litigate, van Wijck and van Velthoven (2000) on American rule versus British rule in litigation, Fon et al (2005) on the impact on legal change, Schneider (2005) focusing on judges productivity, Cassone and Ramello (2011) on the economics of class action litigation and Calabresi and Schwartz (2011) on their cost, Di Vita (2012) on administrative disputes and Deybeli (2012) focusing on the technical efficiency of the European Judicial system. However for a more complete overview we must let the reader to conduct a more extensive exploration of the journal pages.…”

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2017

Eur J Law Econ

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Analysis of relationship between efficiency of justice services and salaries of judges with two-stage DEA method

Cited by 69 publications

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On the need for reform of the Portuguese judicial system – Does Data Envelopment Analysis assessment support it?

On the need for reform of the Portuguese judicial system – Does Data Envelopment Analysis assessment support it?

Productivity Antecedents of Brazilian Courts of Justice: Evidence from Justiça em Números

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