After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability

Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape politicians' behavior while in office, and can affect how politicians delegate policy decisions. However, these mechanisms are not all alike: some, known as transparency mechanisms, uncover authoritarian collaborators who did their work in secret while others, known as purges, fire open collaborators of the old regime. After Authoritarianism analyzes this distinction in order to uncover the contrasting effects these mechanisms have on sustaining and shaping the qualities of democratic processes. Using a highly disaggregated global transitional justice dataset, the book shows that mechanisms of transitional justice are far from being the epilogue of an outgoing authoritarian regime, and instead represent the crucial first chapter in a country's democratic story. Enables scholars to study how transitional justice impacts democratic stability using a highly disaggregated global transitional justice dataset Provides accompanying website to give readers a hands-on opportunity to interact with the dataset's visualization tool Applies formal theory and causal identification to a subfield (transitional justice and human rights) that has rarely been studied in this way

• ISBN: 9781009073714
• Editorial: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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