Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Elster, Jon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139810074
• Artikelnr.: 52989192

Autorenporträt

Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He has also taught in Paris, Oslo, and Chicago. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens, Sour Grapes, Making Sense of Marx, The Cement of Society, Solomonic Judgements, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, Local Justice, Political Psychology, Strong Feelings, Alchemies of the Mind, and Ulysses Unbound. His research onterests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice, and the history of social thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Jon Elster; Part I. General Issues: 2. Restitution: how far
back should we go? Tyler Cowen; 3. Retribution Jon Elster; Part II. Germany
and German-Occupied Countries after 1945: 4. Transitional justice in
divided Germany after 1945 David Cohen; 5. Purges in France after the
Liberation Henry Rousso; 6. Political justice in Austria and Hungary after
World War II Istvan Deák; 7. Dealing with the past in Scandinavia Hans
Fredrik Dahl; 8. Belgian and Dutch purges after World War II compared Luc
Huyse; Part III. Latin America, Post-Communism, and South Africa: 9.
Paranoids may be persecuted: post-totalitarian retroactive justice Aviezer
Tucker; 10. Transitional justice in Argentina and Chile: a never ending
story? Carlos H. Acuña; 11. Transitional justice in the German Democratic
Republic and in Unified Germany Claus Offe and Ulrike Poppe; 12. Rough
justice: rectification in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian regimes
Aviezer Tucker; 13. Accountability and the South African experience Alex
Boraine; 14. Conclusion.