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Transitional Justice after Economic Crisis

  • This dissertation is about how democracies can respond to economic crises. At its centre is the dilemma that political elites, and societies as a whole, face after such an event –whether to focus exclusively on forward-looking policies that secure a recovery or whether to also address the underlying causes of the crisis, learning the lessons of the past but also weathering the divisiveness and recrimination this exercise is likely to elicit. To engage with this dilemma, this research takes inspiration from the field of transitional justice on how societies can deal with the past, and learn from it. Of special interest are the mechanisms of transitional justice. Truth commissions most prominently, but also prosecutions, reparations, and constitutional reforms. The analysis moves from a cross-country comparison of truth commissions deployed in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece after the Great Recession, to a case study of a comprehensive range of mechanisms deployed in Iceland, to an impact assessment of the most effective of the three truth commission. I will argue that the transitional justice framework brings helpful and practical insights when applied to the study of economic crises in established democracies. It challenges the conventional wisdom that ‘business as usual’ will prevail after an economic crisis; it also yields principles for designing mechanisms that promote learning from the past and building-in better practices in the future.

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Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Ragnar Hjalmarsson
Advisor:Christian Joerges, Kieran McEvoy, Iosif Kovras
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (14/2021)
Publication year:2021
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2021/09/02
Number pages:157
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4140
Release Date:2021/10/07
Tag:economic crisis, transitional justice, learning, accountability, truth commissions, prosecutions, reparations, constitutional reform.
Notes:
The dissertation’s first chapter has been published here:  
Kovras, Iosif, Shaun McDaid, and Ragnar Hjalmarsson. “Truth Commissions after Economic Crises: Political Learning or Blame Game?” Political Studies 66, no. 1 (February 2018): 173–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321717706902
Notes:
Shelf mark: 2021D014 + 2021D014+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International
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