Realizing Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe: Focusing on Lustration Law (2017.09)

• Author : Sung-woo Lee
• Journal : Korean Journal of International Relations
• Publisher : The Korean Association of International Studies
• Volume : 57(3)
• Publication Date : September, 2017
• Abstract : The major purpose of this study is to analyse the realizing transitional justice focusing on lustration law in transitional countries of eastern europe. This study analyze whether making law and political struggles about lustration affect better democracy in transitional countries. As a result, this article found that lustration, economic growth, and free pricing have some positive effects with democratic development in transitional countries. Based on this analysis, this article suggest that the transitional justice make positive effects for the stable democratization and national development of transitional countries as democratic regimes, even though transitional countries made very bounded and deficient institutionalization for transitional justice because of the political struggles of the old forces against new regime.

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