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Article: Producing truth: the politics of investigating past human rights violations in post-Communist states.
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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When new elites take power from a repressive regime, how do they redefine the past to strengthen their political power? Although the political science literature goes a long way in investigating the causes and processes of revolution and institutional change, significant questions concerning "what comes next" have fallen by the wayside. Instead, theoretical work carried out by political scientists (see, for example, Huntington 1994; O'Donnell and Schmitter 1994) is swept into a messy corner, a vague interdisciplinary discussion of "transitional justice." It is unclear why this is the case. By exploring how new leaders use truth processes in post-repressive states to ...
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