Does Truth Revelation Enhance the Quality of Democratic Representation?

• In Event: States of Transition: Justice, Courts, and Constitutionalism

Brief Overview

This paper uses a novel transitional justice dataset and difference-in-difference design to evaluate the effects of truth revelation procedures, namely truth commissions and lustration, on democratic quality.

Authors

• Milena Ang, University of Chicago

• Monika A. Nalepa, University of Chicago

• Genevieve Aaron Bates, University of Chicago