Claire Greenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 274681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Greenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenstein |
| SIGNATURE | GREENSTEIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9694-8167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims
Sites of mass trauma, or 'sites of conscience,' have symbolic power that makes them ideal locations for honoring the people who suffered there, educating about history, and advocating for human rights. This article argues that sites of conscience can also be resources for victimized groups because these sites are places, not just spaces, and therefore hold authenticity, symbolism, and moral power. It further argues that, when victims have a perso…
Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany
Objectives Social movement theory argues that activist movements emerge when the political opportunity structure is favorable. This article contributes to the literature on social movements and minority activism by showing that individual‐level activism happens even without a favorable opportunity structure. Methods The legal journal Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht ( Case Law on Reparations Legislation) , published from 1949 to 1981, re…
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations
Reparations payments are commonly measured as either paid versus not paid, or present versus absent. I argue that this approach causes researchers to overlook systematic variation in the types of abuses that governments include in their reparations commitments. This article makes the case for revising quantitative reparations indicators to reflect the fact that governments often promise and/or pay reparations for some human rights violations and …
Patterned Payments: Explaining Victim Group Variation in West German Reparations Policy
∞ Why, once governments decide to pay reparations, do they fulfill their reparations promises to some groups and not to others? I argue that the organizational capacity of a victim group helps explain which groups receive reparations. I develop this argument through an in-depth case study of the postwar experience of German Sinti and Roma, supported by archival and interview data. I show that organized victim groups received reparations from the …
Research handbook on transitional justice edited by Cheryl Lawther, Luke Moffett, and Dov Jacobs
Trials, lustration, and clean elections: The Uneven Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Electoral Manipulation
Transitional justice aims to promote democratization, but previous research has found that it has mixed effects. We address this puzzle by focussing on how transitional justice affects a necessary condition for democracy: clean elections. We test for the effects of four transitional justice mechanisms – truth commissions, lustration policies, amnesties, and trials – on two different types of electoral manipulation, using data from 187 post-transi…
Trials, lustration, and clean elections: The Uneven Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Electoral Manipulation
Transitional justice aims to promote democratization, but previous research has found that it has mixed effects. We address this puzzle by focussing on how transitional justice affects a necessary condition for democracy: clean elections. We test for the effects of four transitional justice mechanisms – truth commissions, lustration policies, amnesties, and trials – on two different types of electoral manipulation, using data from 187 post-transi…
Trials, lustration, and clean elections: The Uneven Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Electoral Manipulation
Transitional justice aims to promote democratization, but previous research has found that it has mixed effects. We address this puzzle by focussing on how transitional justice affects a necessary condition for democracy: clean elections. We test for the effects of four transitional justice mechanisms – truth commissions, lustration policies, amnesties, and trials – on two different types of electoral manipulation, using data from 187 post-transi…
Research handbook on transitional justice edited by Cheryl Lawther, Luke Moffett, and Dov Jacobs
Patterned Payments: Explaining Victim Group Variation in West German Reparations Policy
∞ Why, once governments decide to pay reparations, do they fulfill their reparations promises to some groups and not to others? I argue that the organizational capacity of a victim group helps explain which groups receive reparations. I develop this argument through an in-depth case study of the postwar experience of German Sinti and Roma, supported by archival and interview data. I show that organized victim groups received reparations from the …
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations
Reparations payments are commonly measured as either paid versus not paid, or present versus absent. I argue that this approach causes researchers to overlook systematic variation in the types of abuses that governments include in their reparations commitments. This article makes the case for revising quantitative reparations indicators to reflect the fact that governments often promise and/or pay reparations for some human rights violations and …
Individual legal action as minority activism: Romani Germans in 1950s West Germany
Objectives Social movement theory argues that activist movements emerge when the political opportunity structure is favorable. This article contributes to the literature on social movements and minority activism by showing that individual‐level activism happens even without a favorable opportunity structure. Methods The legal journal Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht ( Case Law on Reparations Legislation) , published from 1949 to 1981, re…
Reducing mass atrocities through transitional justice
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims
Sites of mass trauma, or 'sites of conscience,' have symbolic power that makes them ideal locations for honoring the people who suffered there, educating about history, and advocating for human rights. This article argues that sites of conscience can also be resources for victimized groups because these sites are places, not just spaces, and therefore hold authenticity, symbolism, and moral power. It further argues that, when victims have a perso…
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