Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective - Brossura

Elster, Jon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521548543 ISBN 13: 9780521548540

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. Part I, 'The Universe of Transitional Justice', describes more than thirty transitions, some of them in considerable detail, others more succinctly. Part II, 'The Analytics of Transitional Justice', proposes a framework for explaining the variations among the cases - why after some transitions wrongdoers from the previous regime are punished severely and in other cases mildly or not at all, and victims sometimes compensated generously and sometimes poorly or not at all. After surveying a broad range of justifications and excuses for wrongdoings and criteria for selecting and indemnifying victims, the 2004 book concludes with a discussion of three general explanatory factors: economic and political constraints, the retributive emotions, and the play of party politics.

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An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The 2004 book describes the universe of cases, and proposes a framework for explaining the variations among them.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521548543
• ISBN 13: 9780521548540
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312