What is the effect of Personnel Transitional Justice on Crime

• In Event: Midwest Eurasian Political Economy Workshop - Corruption & Law

Brief Overview

Using a case study of Russia in the 1990s and novel data from the Global Transitional Justice Dataset, the paper argues that some forms of TJ, namely purges, increase crime levels in new democracies and as such can undermine democratic stability.

Authors

• Evgenia Olimpieva, University of Chicago

• Genevieve Aaron Bates, University of Chicago

• Ipek Cinar, University of Chicago

• Monika A. Nalepa, University of Chicago