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 19892012. 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 Bulgariadraw 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primary and historical documents, and interview materials to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. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series
for scholars and students of comparative politics and related
disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the
democratization process that accompanied the decline and
termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series
is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern
Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series
editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield
College, University of Oxford.
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