NDLI: Justice Without Transition: Truth Commissions in the Context of Repressive Rule

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Grodsky, Brian
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	While the study of transitional justice, and especially truth commissions, has gained in popularity over the past two decades, the literature is overwhelmingly focused on activities in democratizing states. This introduces a selection bias that interferes with proper analysis of causes and consequences of transitional justice on a global scale. In this paper, I discuss conditions under which new repressive elites, and even old repressive elites who survive to rule and repress in nominally new systems, may choose to launch broad investigations of the past. I argue that such a decision is based on two primary considerations, the presence of internally or externally based incentives (e.g., foreign aid) and the level of political control enjoyed by old elites in the new system. I apply this argument to post-Soviet Central Asia, including a detailed case study of Uzbekistan’s 1999 truth commission based on domestic media analysis and local elite interviews.
Starting Page	281
Ending Page	297
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15248879
Journal	Human Rights Review
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18746306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-12-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Truth commission Transitional justice Repressive elites Central Asia Post-communist Uzbekistan Political Science Political Philosophy Ethics Philosophy of Law Law Theory/Law Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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