Retribution and reparation in the transition to democracy
By: edited by Jon Elster.
Contributors: Elster, Jon, 1940-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Political crimes and offenses; Justice and politics; Ex post facto laws; Restorative justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jon Elster; title: Restitution : how far back should we go? / Tyler Cowen; title: Retribution / Jon Elster; title: Transitional justice in divided Germany after 1945 / David Cohen; title: Purges in France after the liberation / Henry Rousso; title: Political justice in Austria and Hungary after World War II / Istvan Deák; title: Dealing with the past in Scandinavia / Hans Fredrik Dahl; title: Belgian and Dutch purges after WW II compared / Luc Huyse; title: Paranoids may be persecuted : post-totalitarian retroactive justice / Aviezer Tucker; title: Transitional justice in Argentina and Chile : a never ending story? / Carlos H. Acuña; title: Transitional justice in the German Democratic Republic and in unified Germany / Claus Offe and Ulrike Poppe; title: Rough justice : rectification in post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian regimes / Aviezer Tucker; title: Accountability and the South African experience / Alex Boraine; title: Conclusion / Jon Elster.