Although both Hungary and the Czech Republic have seen populists arrive in power over
the past decade, only Hungary has experienced a measurable deterioration in the quality of …

Human rights prosecutions addressing wartime crimes are often credited with deterring
future rights abuses, but routinely occur alongside state repression. This article develops a …

This study analyzes the institutional variation across domestic legal systems, with a focus on
common law system's adherence to precedent and reduced recourse to judicial deference …

Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced
around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward …

Why are transparency regimes so rare? When some politicians have something to conceal,
why would their opponents not press for transparency? To analyze transitional justice, we …

Human rights compliance research neglects recommendations from national human rights
institutions and other domestic bodies. In particular, the implementation of recommendations …

During the Portuguese 2021 presidential campaign, a major national newspaper asked all
candidates the same constellation of questions. One of them read:'If elected, will you …

This paper studies a new mechanism that allows political elites from a non-democratic
regime to survive a democratic transition: connections. We document this mechanism in the …

What is the effect of transitional justice on crime in post-authoritarian states? An implicit
assumption in the transitional justice literature is that by dealing with the human rights …

Political leaders face many agency problems, such as managing subordinates who may not
honestly report information. One potential solution to these problems is kompromat: the …