04360nam 2200709 a 450 991095520110332120200520144314.09780268080648026808064X(CKB)3240000000064508(SSID)ssj0000631019(PQKBManifestationID)11430813(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631019(PQKBWorkID)10591852(PQKB)10484343(OCoLC)761182428(MdBmJHUP)muse17269(Au-PeEL)EBL3571176(CaPaEBR)ebr10557718(MiAaPQ)EBC3571176(Perlego)3721609(EXLCZ)99324000000006450820100610d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe costs of justice how new leaders respond to previous rights abuses /Brian K. GrodskyNotre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc2010x, 355 p. illContemporary European politics and societyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780268029777 0268029776 Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-334) and index.What is transitional justice and why should we care? -- Explaining justice : what are the key determinants of transitional justice policy? -- The justice spectrum : a new methodological approach to studying transitional justice -- The peculiarities of postcommunist justice : addressing lustration -- The method of study : using qualitative data to uncover the path of justice -- Poland : justice, economics, and the end of Solidarity -- Serbia and Montenegro : justice as Yugoslavia's most valuable foreign export? -- Croatia : when the cost of justice is too high -- Uzbekistan : exploiting justice today, facing justice tomorrow? -- Transitional justice in a cross-national perspective -- Reassessing how we think about justice.In The Costs of Justice, Brian K. Grodsky provides qualitative analyses of how transitional justice processes have evolved in diverse ways in postcommunist Poland, Croatia, Serbia, and Uzbekistan, by examining the decision-making processes and goals of those actors who contributed to key transitional justice policy decisions. Grodsky draws on extensive interviews with key political figures, human rights leaders, and representatives of various international, state, and nongovernmental bodies, as well as detailed analysis of international and local news reports, to offer a systematic and qualitatively compelling account of transitional justice from the perspective of activists who, at the end of a previous regime, were suddenly transformed from downtrodden victim to empowered judge. Grodsky challenges the argument that transitional justice in post-repressive states is largely a function of the relative power of new versus old elites. He maintains that a new regime's transitional justice policy is closely linked to its capacity to provide goods and services expected by constituents, not to political power struggles. In introducing this goods variable, so common to broad political analysis but largely overlooked in the transitional justice debate, Grodsky argues that we must revise our understanding of transitional justice. It is not an exceptional issue; it is but one of many political decisions faced by leaders in a transition state. Contemporary European politics and society.Transitional justiceCase studiesHuman rightsCase studiesTransitional justiceEurope, EasternHuman rightsEurope, EasternTransitional justiceUzbekistanHuman rightsUzbekistanPost-communismCase studiesTransitional justiceHuman rightsTransitional justiceHuman rightsTransitional justiceHuman rightsPost-communism320.01/1Grodsky Brian K.1974-1642441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955201103321The costs of justice4353648UNINA