Transitional Justice and Protracted Accountability in Re-democratised Uruguay, 1985-2011
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3523008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Roniger (0000-0002-0246-5384, Reynolds American (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 693-724 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x11000459 |
| OpenAlex | W2000134558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article analyses the protracted process by which democratised Uruguay has come to terms with its legacy of human rights violations. Central to this process has been the nature of Uruguayan transitional policies and their more recent partial unravelling. Due to the negotiated transition to electoral democracy, civilian political elites approached the transitional dilemma of balancing normative expectations and political contingency by promulgating legal immunity, for years avoiding initiatives to pursue trials or launch an official truth commission, unlike neighbouring Argentina. A constellation of national and transnational factors (including recurrent initiatives by social and political forces) eventually opened up new institutional ground for belated truth-telling and accountability for some historical wrongs - and yet, attempts to challenge the blanket legal impunity failed twice through popular consultation and in a recent parliamentary vote. Each time, the government officially projected a narrative that sacralised national consensus and reconciliation, now enshrined in two sovereign popular votes, and the adoption of a forward-looking democratic perspective
Accountability · Democracy · Dilemma · Impunity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transitional justice · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration
Unspeakable Truths
Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America
The crises beyond past crisis
Legal development and human rights in Uruguay
Between remembering and forgetting
The Peace Commission
Reckoning with Past Wrongs
Agenda Setting and Problem Definition
Truth commissions, trials-or nothing? Policy options in democratic transitions
Piecing Memories Together after State Terror and Policies of Oblivion in Uruguay
Left in Transformation
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |