Self-Selection into Purges

• In Event: Recent Work on Transitional Justice

Brief Overview

We propose and test a formal model of how former Polish police officers were purged after transition to democracy, using both wojewodztwo-level and officer-level data from the archives of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.

Authors

• Monika A. Nalepa, The University of Chicago

• Barbara Maria Piotrowska, King's College London