Titlebook: Dilemmas of Justice in Eastern Europe‘s Democratic Transitions; Noel Calhoun Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America In

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Die Transformation der , in Ostdeutschlandand its collaborators retain the right to hold public office and comfortable civil service jobs.. However, the issue of past crimes did not evaporate after Poland’s first free elections. In fact, the issue proved to have a remarkable ability to endure.

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Liberal Democratic Ideology and Transitional Justice,ates and policy decisions, exposing the assumptions that shape the debates and highlighting the common themes. Second, better theoretical explication will help us to make a principled, reasoned prescription for how countries might come to terms with the past in a way that best promotes a liberal democratic future.

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Liberal Democratic Ideology and Transitional Justice,tions, analyzing their options in light of liberal democratic norms. Thus, it is worth attempting a systematic answer to the question: Is there a liberal democratic model for coming to terms with past injustices? This chapter constructs an “ideal-type” of a liberal democratic approach to transitiona

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,Poland’s Long Search for Justice,ion to democracy in 1989 is key to understanding why the government chose not to pursue transitional justice in the months after the first elections. When the regime and opposition negotiate the conditions for holding free elections, the regime demands velvet treatment. The opposition, eager for the

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,Russia’s Buried Past, with the past began in 1987, four years before the country moved from its agenda of gradual reform to a radical break with the communist system. The process started earlier than in Poland and East Germany, well before democratization seemed inevitable. During the period of . ’ [openness], the media

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,Conclusion: Liberal Democracy’s Shortcomings and Overriding Advantage,ry means toward that end (man rescues woman). Likewise, an ideology organizes our thoughts about politics over time. It defines an end (the political good) and the means for attaining it (e.g., revolution, war, or negotiations). Ideology is thus as useful to politicians as the plot formula is to the