Building trust and democracy : transitional justice in post-communist countries / Cynthia M. Horne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horne, Cynthia Michalski, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in democratization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Europe, Eastern.

Democracy.

Transitional justice.

Trust.

Eastern Europe.

Democracy--Europe, Central.

Trust--Europe, Eastern.

Trust--Europe, Central.

Transitional justice--Europe, Eastern.

Transitional justice--Europe, Central.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

xviii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This volume explores the effects of transitional justice measures on trust-building and democratization across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the Former Soviet Union over the period 1989-2012. The author argues that transitional justice measures have a differentiated impact on political and social trust building, supporting some aspects of political trust and undermining other aspects of social trust. Moreover, the structure, scope, timing, and implementation of transitional justice measures condition outcomes. More expansive and compulsory institutional change mechanisms register the largest effects, with limited and voluntary change mechanisms having a diminished effect, and more informal and largely symbolic measures having the most attenuated effect. These differentiated and conditional effects are also evident with respect to transition goals like supporting democratic consolidation and reducing corruption, since these goals respond differently to the mixtures of institutional and symbolic reforms found in transitional justice programs. The author develops an original transitional justice typology in order to test hypotheses linking trust-building and transitional justice across twelve cases in the post-communist region. The resulting new datasets allow for a quantitative examination of the relationship between different types of transitional justice programs and a range of possible state building and societal reconciliation goals, including political trust-building, social trust-building, democratization, the strengthening of civil society, the promotion of government effectiveness, and the reduction of corruption. Comparative case studies of four transitional justice programs--Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria--draw on field work, primary and historical documents, and interview materials to explicate trust-building dynamics, with particular attention to regime complicity challenges, historical memory issues, and communist legacies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Trust and Transitional Justice 23

2 Classifying Countries within the Transitional Justice Typology 56

3 Building Trust in Public Institutions 131

4 Trust in Government and Government Effectiveness 187

5 Collaboration, Complicity, and Historical Memory 214

6 Lustration, Public Disclosures, and Social Trust 238

7 Transitional Justice in Support of Democratization 269

8 Conclusion: Evaluating Post-Communist Transitional Justice 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.

ISBN:

9780198793328

0198793324

OCLC:

960833567