Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
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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. 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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When all personnel TJ events are pooled, there is no relationship between personnel TJ and time lapsed since transition or year of transition.
“it appears evident that there is no relationship between personnel TJ and two variables that ought to be good predictors of TJ: time lapsed since transition and year of transition (Elster 2004; Huntington 1991; Barahona de Brito, González-Enríquez, and Aguilar 2001).”
From Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946–2016) (2020) · cites this paper as Elster 2004
TRCs enable peacebuilding and statebuilding to address past wrongs, heal wounded hearts, hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable, and prevent the relapse of future abusive actions.
“TRCs enable peacebuilding and statebuilding to address past wrongs, heal wounded hearts, hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable, and prevent the relapse of future abusive actions (Elster, 2004).”
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- Authors
- Elster, J.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Elster, Jon
- ORCID
- Elster, Jon
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2004-09-06
- OpenAlex
- W4211159393
- Cited by
- 531
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 16.89
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, violence, and history
- Keywords
- transitional justice, retribution, reparations, victim compensation, victim selection, party politics, Athens, judicial history
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