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Jon Elster

Closing the Books

Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective

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After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at least constitutional, regime, a process of transitional justice emerges in which wrongdoers from the previous regime are judged responsible and victims are compensated. John Elster looks at examples and proposes a framework for explaining variations. In addition to the numerous transitions after 1945 in Western Europe and after 1989 in Eastern Europe, transitional justice has taken place in classical Greece, the English and French restorations, and, more recently, in Latin America and South Africa. John Elster looks at these examples in this his… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-521-83969-3
  • EAN: 9780521839693
  • Produktnummer: 1339761
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 312 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 634 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 634

Über den Autor


Professor Jon Elster is the Robert Merton Professor OF Social Science at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972. Before coming to Columbia University, he taught at Paris, Oslo and Chicago. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens (1979), Sour Grapes (1983), Making Sense of Marx (1985), The Cement of Society (1989), Solomonic Judgements (1989), Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (1989), Local Justice (1992) and Political Psychology (1993). His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice and the history of social thought (Marx and Tocqueville).

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