Democratic transitions in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of transitional justice, have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious. Recent scholarship rarely questions the concepts and categories transposed from one country to another. This is true both in the language of political life and in the social sciences examining past-oriented public policy, especially policy toward ethnic cleansing and the line between the language of political practice, legal analysis, and scholarly...
Democratic transitions in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of transitional justice, have inv...
