Human rights and political justice in post-communist Eastern Europe : prosecuting history /

Human rights and political justice in post-communist Eastern Europe : prosecuting history /

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Author / Creator:Voiculescu, Aurora, 1964-
Imprint:Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Description:xiv, 355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in social and political theory v. 24
Subject:
Political crimes and offenses -- Europe, Eastern.
Human rights -- Europe, Eastern -- Criminal provisions.
Criminal liability -- Europe, Eastern.
Administrative responsibility -- Europe, Eastern.
Communists -- Europe, Eastern.
Administrative responsibility.
Communists.
Criminal liability.
Human rights -- Criminal provisions.
Political crimes and offenses.
Europe, Eastern.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4363643
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ISBN:0773475311 (hard)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-352) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Collective Responsibility as a Dimension of Political Justice
  • 1.1. The "Alternative" Fuller Never Wrote About
  • 1.2. The Definition and Terminology of Political Justice
  • 1.2.1. The Definition of Political Justice
  • 1.2.2. The Terminology of Justice
  • 1.3. Approaches to Political Justice in Eastern Europe
  • 1.3.1. The Case for Prosecutions
  • 1.3.2. The Case Against Prosecutions
  • 1.3.3. Screening and Cleansing
  • 1.3.4. Procedural Concerns
  • 1.4. The Object of Political Justice
  • 1.5. The Right to Revolution
  • 1.6. Preliminary Conclusions
  • Chapter 2. On Prosecuting: Political Justice Through Criminal Law Measures
  • 2.1. Introducing Case Studies to Political Justice
  • 2.2. The Criminal Law Approach to Political Justice in Hungary: Historical Background
  • 2.2.1. Amending the Statute of Limitations: Context and Content of the Zetenyi-Takacs Law
  • 2.2.2. The Constitutional Court Decision on the Zetenyi-Takacs Law
  • 2.2.3. Legal Security v. "Exceptional Circumstances"
  • 2.2.4. Formal v. Substantive in the Constitutional Discourse
  • 2.2.5. The Law No. 53/1993 on the Statute of Limitations: Context and Content
  • 2.2.6. The Revolution of the Rule of Law: The Constitutional Court's Decision on the Law No. 53/1993
  • 2.2.7. Collective Political Agency and Responsibility
  • 2.3. Formal v. Substantive: Aspects of the German Border Guards Trials
  • 2.4. Preliminary Conclusions
  • Chapter 3. On Screening: Political Justice Through Administrative Procedures and Non-Criminal Law
  • 3.1. The Non-Criminal Law Approach to Political Justice in the Czech Republic: Historical Background
  • 3.2. The Czechoslovak Revolution: From Velvet to the Shirt of Penitence
  • 3.3. The Use and Abuse of Secret Police Files in the Process of Political Justice
  • 3.4. The Screening Process in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia
  • 3.4.1. The First Round of Screening in Czechoslovakia
  • 3.4.2. The Second Round of Screening in Czechoslovakia
  • 3.4.3. The Helsinki Proposal
  • 3.4.4. The Lustration Law: The Main Provisions
  • 3.4.5. Procedural Aspects of the Lustration Law
  • 3.4.6. Punishing and Discriminating: In Search of a Rationale
  • 3.4.7. The Constitutional Court Decision on the Lustration Law
  • 3.5. The Czech Act on the Illegality of the Communist Regime
  • 3.6. Preliminary Conclusions
  • Chapter 4. Theories of Collective Responsibility: The Political Organisation as a Legal Actor
  • 4.1. Looking Beyond Individual Responsibility
  • 4.2. Political Bureaucracies as Formal Organisations: From Morality to Metaphysics, and Back
  • 4.3. Theories on Collective Agency: Implications for the Concept of Collective Political Responsibility
  • 4.3.1. Methodological Individualism or the Theory of the Scapegoat
  • 4.3.2. Structural Restraint View or the Theory of the Virtuous Circle
  • 4.3.3. Structural Pragmatism: Taking the Risk
  • 4.3.4. Functional Structuralism: Taking the Blame
  • 4.4. Preliminary Conclusions
  • Chapter 5. Nomenklatura as a Political and Legal Actor
  • 5.1. The Search for a Collective Agent
  • 5.2. A Hybrid: The State - Party Bureaucracy
  • 5.3. Beyond the List: The Communist Nomenklatura
  • 5.4. The Nomenklatura's Sources of Collective Identity
  • 5.5. The Conglomerate Identity: The Knots and Bolts of Real Power
  • 5.6. Preliminary Conclusions: Structure, Control, and Responsibility
  • Chapter 6. Collective Political Responsibility: Quo Vadis?
  • 6.1. Acknowledging the Nomenklatura
  • 6.2. The Rule of Law in Post-Communist Eastern European Context
  • 6.2.1. The Nomenklatura, Collective Responsibility, and the Values of the Rule of Law
  • 6.3. Justice by Truth: The Truth Commission and the Acknowledgement of Collective Responsibility
  • 6.3.1. Collective Responsibility and the Functions of the Truth Commission
  • 6.3.2. Collective Responsibility and the Mandate of the Truth Commission
  • 6.3.3. The Commission and the Commissioners: Setting Up a Truth Commission
  • 6.4. Building on the Truth: Prosecuting and Screening Revisited
  • 6.5. Conclusions: Beyond the Truth Commission's Report
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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