" After Authoritarianism explores these mechanisms in depth and shows their contrasting effects on the quality and stability of new democracies. While transparency mechanisms, such as truth commissions and lustrations enhance democratic processes, mechanisms firing open collaborators such as purges frequently hurt new democracies. Using a highly disaggregated global transitional justice dataset, the book shows that mechanisms of transitional justice are far from being the epilogue of an outgoing authoritarian regime, and ...
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" After Authoritarianism explores these mechanisms in depth and shows their contrasting effects on the quality and stability of new democracies. While transparency mechanisms, such as truth commissions and lustrations enhance democratic processes, mechanisms firing open collaborators such as purges frequently hurt new democracies. Using a highly disaggregated global transitional justice dataset, the book shows that mechanisms of transitional justice are far from being the epilogue of an outgoing authoritarian regime, and instead represent the crucial first chapter in a country's democratic story"--
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