Re-Ordering Justice
Towards A New Methodological Approach to Studying Transitional Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3916588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Grodsky (Department of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 819-837 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343309340108 |
| OpenAlex | W1975885801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 65 |
Scholars and policymakers have turned increasing attention to questions of transitional justice, those legal responses to a former regime's repressive acts following a change in political systems. Although there is a rich, interdisciplinary literature that addresses the value of various transitional justice measures, theoretical arguments for how and under what conditions we should expect to see these measures implemented tend to gravitate to intuitively appealing relative power considerations. But attempts at parsimony have tended to leave the dependent variable either overly restrictive or poorly defined, yielding theories that are difficult to test. In this article, the author proposes a 'transitional justice spectrum' based on a hierarchical series of possible accountability mechanisms and designed to allow researchers to conduct more rigorous, cross-national tests of justice arguments. The objective here is not to posit a broad theory of transitional justice, but to open the debate into a methodological weakness in the transitional justice literature. The article includes seven accountability mechanisms: cessation and codification of human rights violations; condemnation of the old system; rehabilitation and compensation for victims; creation of a truth commission; purging human rights abusers from public function; criminal prosecution of 'executors' (those lower on the chain-of-command); criminal prosecution of commanders (those higher on the chain-of-command
Accountability · Commission · Compensation (psychology) · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transitional justice · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Challenges of the Transitional Justice in the Periphery
International Prosecutions and Domestic Politics
Handbuch Transitional Justice
Human rights activists and transitional justice in the post-communist world
Justicia transicional sin transición
Managing War-to-Peace Transitions after Intra-State Conflicts
How does transitional justice matter? Expanding and refining quantitative research on the effects of transitional justice policies
Designing truth
The dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (Paic)
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions
The performance and persistence of transitional justice and its ways of knowing atrocity
The Emotional Underpinnings of Attitudes toward Transitional Justice
The Demand for Reparations
Determinants of Attitudes Toward Transitional Justice
Contestation and resistance
Who wants to forgive and forget? Transitional justice preferences in postwar Burundi
A social science of human rights
Old truths and new politics
The Birth of a New South Africa
Unspeakable Truths
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Violence and Social Repair
The third wave
Retribution and Reparation in the Transition to Democracy
Comment on the Social Psychology of Shame
Justice and Reconciliation
Closing the Books
Power in Movement
Collective Memory and National Identity in the Spanish Democracy
Justice Without Transition
Collaborators and the politics of memory in Chile
Humiliation and human rights
To punish or pardon
Controversies in the current international human rights debate
Vanishing Acts
Weighing the Costs of Accountability
Justice after Transition
Reckoning with Past Wrongs
To Prosecute or to Pardon? Human Rights Decisions in the Latin American Southern Cone
Losing Face
Anatomy of a Miracle
Individual Accountability in South Africa
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
Peace vs. Accountability in Bosnia
Commissioning the truth
The communist torturers of Eastern Europe
Transgovernmental Relations and International Organizations
Political Rhetoric and Political Persuasion
Toward a Democratic Rule of Law
Confronting the Past
The Attitudinal Bases for Responsiveness to Public Opinion among American Foreign Policy Officials
Settling Old Scores
Human Rights at the United Nations 1955-85
Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation
International human rights
Diplomacy and domestic politics
On compliance
Europe Before the Court
Advocacy and Scholarship in the Study of International War Crime Tribunals and Transitional Justice
The American National Conversation about (Everything but) Shame
Congressional Leadership of Public Opinion
Overcoming the Legacies of Dictatorship
The Tortured, Not the Torturers, Are Ashamed
Shame, Guilt, and Violence
Toward a Deep Cultural Psychology of Shame
Crime and Punishment
The End of Apartheid in South Africa
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |