num_pages: 312
description: 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 history of transitional justice.
language: English
title: Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
titlecomplete: Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
genres: History, Nonfiction, Philosophy
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Cambridge University Press