Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy / Edited by Jon Elster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elster, Jon, 1940-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political crimes and offenses.

Justice, Administration of--Political aspects.

Justice, Administration of.

Ex post facto laws.

Restorative justice.

Transitional justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Contents:

2 How Far Back Should We Go? Why Restitution Should Be Small / Tyler Cowen 17

3 Retribution / Jon Elster 33

Part II Germany and German-Occupied Countries After 1945 57

4 Transitional Justice in Divided Germany after 1945 / David Cohen 59

5 The Purge in France: An Incomplete Story / Henry Rousso 89

6 Political Justice in Austria and Hungary after World War II / Istvan Deak 124

7 Dealing with the Past in Scandinavia: Legal Purges and Popular Memories of Nazism and World War II in Denmark and Norway after 1945 / Hans Fredrik Dahl 147

8 Belgian and Dutch Purges after World War II Compared / Luc Huyse 164

Part III Latin America, Post Communism, and South Africa 179

9 Paranoids May Be Persecuted: Post-totalitarian Transitional Justice / Aviezer Tucker 181

10 Transitional Justice in Argentina and Chile: A Never-Ending Story? / Carlos H. Acuna 206

11 Transitional Justice in the German Democratic Republic and in Unified Germany / Claus Offe, Ulrike Poppe 239

12 Rough Justice: Rectification in Post-authoritarian and Post-totalitarian Regimes / Aviezer Tucker 276

13 Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa Amnesty: The Price of Peace / Alex Boraine 299.

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2012).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511584343

9780521829731

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