Delayed Transitional Justice

This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that have negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

Autorentext

Mariana S. Mendes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Mercator Forum for Migration and Democracy, Institute of Political Science, Technical University Dresden, Germany.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

Conceptual and theoretical framework

1 Definition and operationalization of transitional justice: The Transitional Justice Scale

2 Theoretical framework: A holistic approach to delayed transitional justice

PART II

Tra**nsitional justice trajectories in context**

3 Spain: From deliberate forgetting to limited acknowledgment

4 Uruguay: From blockage to criminal accountability

5 Brazil: From a marginal issue to the 'right to truth'

PART III

Comparative analysis 2

6 Making sense of the timing of transitional justice

7 Making sense of differences in countries' trajectories

Conclusion

Annex

Index