Rosemary Nagy and Jon Elster
Melissa S. Williams (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814794661
- eISBN:
- 9780814725276
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814794661.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies, and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from ...
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Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies, and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompasses the range of institutional mechanisms by which societies address the wrongs committed by past regimes in order to lay the foundation for more legitimate political and legal order. This book settles some of the key theoretical debates over the meaning of transitional justice while opening up new ones. By engaging both theorists and empirical social scientists in debates over central categories of analysis in the study of transitional justice, it also illuminates the challenges of making strong empirical claims about the impact of transitional institutions.Less
Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies, and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompasses the range of institutional mechanisms by which societies address the wrongs committed by past regimes in order to lay the foundation for more legitimate political and legal order. This book settles some of the key theoretical debates over the meaning of transitional justice while opening up new ones. By engaging both theorists and empirical social scientists in debates over central categories of analysis in the study of transitional justice, it also illuminates the challenges of making strong empirical claims about the impact of transitional institutions.
Leng Jing
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099319
- eISBN:
- 9789882206786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099319.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
A dynamic theory of corporate governance should be considered for transition economies that concentrate mainly on gradualism in institutional and legal reforms. Aside from pacing and sequencing, ...
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A dynamic theory of corporate governance should be considered for transition economies that concentrate mainly on gradualism in institutional and legal reforms. Aside from pacing and sequencing, emphasis is drawn to the complementarity exhibited in structural reforms for banking, state-owned enterprises, and the securities sector. Under a gradualist strategy, the theory draws attention not only to the merits but also to the limits of the “transitional” institutions that China adopted. Despite the fact that transitional institutions are not entirely consistent with the basic features of the market, these prove to have a significant impact on improving efficiency during the economic reform's early stages. However, these institutions should be either abandoned or adjusted at later stages of transition. This chapter emphasizes the major findings of the study as well as the implications attributed to China's experience.Less
A dynamic theory of corporate governance should be considered for transition economies that concentrate mainly on gradualism in institutional and legal reforms. Aside from pacing and sequencing, emphasis is drawn to the complementarity exhibited in structural reforms for banking, state-owned enterprises, and the securities sector. Under a gradualist strategy, the theory draws attention not only to the merits but also to the limits of the “transitional” institutions that China adopted. Despite the fact that transitional institutions are not entirely consistent with the basic features of the market, these prove to have a significant impact on improving efficiency during the economic reform's early stages. However, these institutions should be either abandoned or adjusted at later stages of transition. This chapter emphasizes the major findings of the study as well as the implications attributed to China's experience.
