How will advances in digital technology affect the future of human rights and authoritarian
rule? Media figures, public intellectuals, and scholars have debated this relationship for …

La justicia transicional democrática es casi tan antigua como la democracia misma. En 411
aC, y nuevamente en 404-403 aC, los atenienses asistieron al derrocamiento de la …

More than twenty years after the fall of communism, many countries in Central and Eastern
Europe are still seeking truth and justice for the repression suffered under communist rule …

Much has been said about the institutional determinants of transitional justice (TJ), yet
scholars still know little about the determinants of citizens' attitudes toward restorative …

Interest in cross-national comparison of transitional justice mechanisms has grown recently,
as has the study of truth commissions in particular. However, as is true of many emerging …

State repression is a common tool used by autocrats, and to understand how the
implementation of repression unfolds, I develop a theory with two key features. First …

In an era of democratic backsliding, scholars and policymakers wonder if failure to reckon
with former authoritarian elites and their collaborators plays a role. Yet without adequate …

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 …

The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding
liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned …

Truth revelation procedures are evaluated according to various normative criteria. The
authors find the concepts of false conviction and false acquittal more adequate for such …