Lustration and Transitional Justice : : Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland / / Roman David.

How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior governments? Should they be excluded or should they be incorporated into the new system? In Lustration and Transitional Justice, Roman David examines major institutional innovations that developed in C...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Personnel Systems and Transitional Justice
  • 1. Personnel Systems and Their Classification
  • 2. The Symbolic Meaning of Personnel Systems
  • Part II. Lustration Systems in Central Europe
  • 3. Lustration Systems and Their Operation
  • 4. The Origin of Lustration Systems
  • 5. The Politics of Lustration Systems
  • Part III. Experimental Evidence
  • 6. Political Effects: Trust in Government
  • 7. Social Effects: Reconciliation and Collective Memory
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. The Dilemmas of Personnel Systems
  • Appendix B. The Experimental Vignette
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments