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Informationen zum Autor Professor Jon Elster is the Robert Merton Professor OF Social Science at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris in 1972. Before coming to Columbia University, he taught at Paris, Oslo and Chicago. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens (1979), Sour Grapes (1983), Making Sense of Marx (1985), The Cement of Society (1989), Solomonic Judgements (1989), Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (1989), Local Justice (1992) and Political Psychology (1993). His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice and the history of social thought (Marx and Tocqueville). Klappentext After a change of political system! notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic! or at least constitutional! regime! a process of transitional justice emerges in which wrongdoers from the previous regime are judged responsible and victims are compensated. John Elster looks at examples and proposes a framework for explaining variations. In addition to the numerous transitions after 1945 in Western Europe and after 1989 in Eastern Europe! transitional justice has taken place in classical Greece! the English and French restorations! and! more recently! in Latin America and South Africa. John Elster looks at these examples in this history of transitional justice. Zusammenfassung An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The 2004 book describes the universe of cases! and proposes a framework for explaining the variations among them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Universe of Transitional Justice: 1. Athens in 411 and 403 BC.; 2. The French restorations in 1814 and 1815; 3. The larger universe of cases; Part II. Analytics of Transitional Justice: 4. The structure of transitional justice; 5. Wrongdoers; 6. Victims; 7. Constraints; 8. Emotions; 9. Politics....
