Closing the Books Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

Name: Closing the Books Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
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ISBN: 9780521548540

ISBN-10: 0521548543

ISBN-13: 9780521548540

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jon Elster

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After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at least constitutional, regime, a process of transitional justice emerges in which wrongdoers from the previous regime are judged responsible and victims are compensated. John Elster looks at examples and proposes a framework for explaining variations. In addition to the numerous transitions after 1945 in Western Europe and after 1989 in Eastern Europe, transitional justice has taken place in classical Greece, the English and French restorations, and, more recently, in Latin America and South Africa. John Elster looks at these examples in this history of transitional justice.

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalitï¿½ et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective .




The Universe of Transitional Justice



Athens in 411 and 403 BC



The French restorations in 1814 and 1815



The larger universe of cases



Analytics of Transitional Justice



The structure of transitional justice



Wrongdoers



Victims



Constraints



Emotions



Politics