Retribution and reparation in the transition to democracy / edited by Jon Elster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elster, Jon, 1940- editor.

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 (ix, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Retribution & Reparation in the Transition to Democracy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of the autocratic regime preceding the democratic transition, and on reparation to its victims. Part I contains general theoretical discussions of retribution and reparation. The essays in Part II survey transitional justice in the wake of World War II, covering Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Norway. In Part III, the contributors discuss more recent transitions in Argentina, Chile, Eastern Europe, the former German Democratic Republic, and South Africa, including a chapter on the reparation of injustice in some of these transitions. The editor provides a general introduction, brief introductions to each part, and a conclusion that looks beyond regime transitions to broader issues of rectifying historical injustice.

Contents:

How far back should we go? Why restitution should be small / Tyler Cowen

Retribution / Jon Elster

Transitional justice in divided Germany after 1945 / David Cohen

The purge in France : an incomplete story / Henry Rousso

Political justice in Austria and Hungary after World War II / István Deák

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

Belgian and Dutch purges after World War II compared / Luc Huyse

Paranoids may be persecuted : post-totalitarian transitional justice / Aviezer Tucker

Transitional justice in Argentina and Chile : a never-ending story? / Carlos H. Acuña

Transitional justice in the German Democratic Republic and in unified Germany / Claus Offe and Ulrike Poppe

Rough justice : rectification in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian regimes / Aviezer Tucker

Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa amnesty : the price of peace / Alex Boraine.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81007-3

1-107-14796-4

0-511-28108-0

0-511-28187-0

0-511-28066-1

1-107-31815-7

1-299-39889-8

0-511-28149-8

0-511-58434-2