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020			_a9780511815362 (ebook)
020			_z9780521514453 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
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100	1		_aNalepa, Monika, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSkeletons in the Closet : _bTransitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe / _cMonika Nalepa.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (330 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book tackles three puzzles of pacted transitions to democracy. First, why do autocrats ever step down from power peacefully if they know that they may be held accountable for their involvement in the ancien régime? Second, when does the opposition indeed refrain from meting out punishment to the former autocrats once the transition is complete? Third, why, in some countries, does transitional justice get adopted when successors of former communists hold parliamentary majorities? Monika Nalepa argues that infiltration of the opposition with collaborators of the authoritarian regime can serve as insurance against transitional justice, making their commitments to amnesty credible. This explanation also accounts for the timing of transitional justice across East Central Europe. Nalepa supports her theory using a combination of elite interviews, archival evidence, and statistical analysis of survey experiments in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521514453
830		0	_aCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815362
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38770 _d38770