Can Transitional Justice Improve the Quality of Representation in New Democracies?
Abstract
Can transitional justice enhance democratic representation in countries recovering from authoritarian rule? The authors argue that lustration, a policy that reveals secret collaboration with the authoritarian regime, can prevent former authoritarian elites from extorting policy concessions from past collaborators who have been elected as politicians in the new regime. Absent lustration, former elites can threaten to reveal information about past...
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Title
Can Transitional Justice Improve the Quality of Representation in New Democracies?
Published Date
Aug 28, 2019
Journal
Volume
71
Issue
04
Pages
631 - 666
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