Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Joanna R. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Cambridge University

Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy, Jon Elster, ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 341.Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy is a useful addition to the burgeoning scholastic field of transitional justice. The essays in the book are authored by several well-known and other lesser-known scholars, including Luc Huyse, Claus Offe and Alex Boraine. Collectively, the essays tackle two of the major themes of transitional justice: retribution and reparation.

Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. By James L. Gibson

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-431
Author(s):  
Monika Nalepa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Direct Function ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Apartheid Regime

Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. By James L. Gibson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 328p. $92.00.All three of James Gibson's books on transitional justice in South Africa focus on showing that the politics of reconciliation with the Apartheid regime are less related to economic “self-interest” than to “sociotropic fairness.” On close examination, Gibson concludes that an individual's preferences about land reconciliation are not a direct function of egocentric instrumentalism. Rather, in his view, they are shaped by conceptions of whether one's group has been fairly treated.

Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe. By Monika Nalepa

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
James L. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
The Past

Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe. By Monika Nalepa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 328p. $88.00 cloth, $27.00 paper.In the not-too-distant past, systematic transitional justice research was a rarity. Normative treatises on various aspects of the justice of transitions have long been a staple of the human rights literature, but empirical and analytical inquiries into the causes and consequences of efforts to deal with the past have not.

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