Building trust and democracy : transitional justice in post-communist countries / Cynthia M. Horne.

Author
Horne, Cynthia Michalski [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description
xviii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Oxford studies in democratization [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "This volume explores the effects of transitional justice measures on trust-building and democratization across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the Former Soviet Union over the period 1989-2012. The author argues that transitional justice measures have a differentiated impact on political and social trust building, supporting some aspects of political trust and undermining other aspects of social trust. Moreover, the structure, scope, timing, and implementation of transitional justice measures condition outcomes. More expansive and compulsory institutional change mechanisms register the largest effects, with limited and voluntary change mechanisms having a diminished effect, and more informal and largely symbolic measures having the most attenuated effect. These differentiated and conditional effects are also evident with respect to transition goals like supporting democratic consolidation and reducing corruption, since these goals respond differently to the mixtures of institutional and symbolic reforms found in transitional justice programs. The author develops an original transitional justice typology in order to test hypotheses linking trust-building and transitional justice across twelve cases in the post-communist region. The resulting new datasets allow for a quantitative examination of the relationship between different types of transitional justice programs and a range of possible state building and societal reconciliation goals, including political trust-building, social trust-building, democratization, the strengthening of civil society, the promotion of government effectiveness, and the reduction of corruption. Comparative case studies of four transitional justice programs--Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria--draw on field work, primary and historical documents, and interview materials to explicate trust-building dynamics, with particular attention to regime complicity challenges, historical memory issues, and communist legacies."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.
    Contents
    • Trust and Transitional Justice
    • Classifying Countries within the Transitional Justice Typology
    • Building Trust in Public Institutions
    • Trust in Government and Government Effectiveness
    • Collaboration, Complicity, and Historical Memory
    • Lustration, Public Disclosures, and Social Trust
    • Transitional Justice in Support of Democratization
    • Conclusion: Evaluating Post-Communist Transitional Justice.
    ISBN
    • 9780198793328 ((hardcover))
    • 0198793324 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016955202
    OCLC
    960833567
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