'… the book combines analytical narratives and empirical data, the latter conveniently assembled in appendixes following thematic chapters … Recommended.' S. Mitropolitski, Choice
1. Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie?; 2. Blackmail and Transparency; 3. Purging the Authoritarian State; 4. Measuring Transitional Justice; 5. Lustration and Programmatic Representation; 6. Truth Commissions and the Quality of Democracy; 7. Purges and the Quality of Democracy; 8. Taking stock: Joint Analysis of all Mechanisms; 9. Conclusion: Beyond Ritual Sacrifices; 10. Appendices.