Over the past three decades, hundreds of government officials have gone from being
immune to any accountability for their human rights violations to being the subjects of highly …

The Portuguese military coup of 25 April 1974 was the beginning of the'third wave'of
democratic transitions in Southern Europe. Unshackled by international pro-democratizing …

Mais de 50 anos após o início da Guerra Colonial portuguesa e das lutas de libertação,
permanece ainda um vasto manto de interditos. O presente livro reúne contribuições de …

Comparative research on democratisation suggests the political space for the immediate
punishment of previous dictatorships depends on the type of transition and the correlative …

Muitas memórias foram construídas sobre os horrores cometidos durante as ditaduras
europeias e latino-americanas do século XX. O passado que não passa é composto de uma …

How do political parties react to transitional justice (TJ) processes? Do they always have to
choose between supporting and rejecting the punishment of the outgoing elite and their …

Em outubro de 1970 três países distintos–África do Sul, Rodésia e Portugal–, partilhando
um mesmo interesse, a luta contra o comunismo e o seu braço armado, o nacionalismo …

This article examines comparatively how six countries—Greece, Portugal and Spain in
Southern Europe, and Argentina, Uruguay and Chile in the Southern Cone of Latin America …

Institutional building constitutes a distinct parameter of the democratic transition process.
The comparative perspective of this article enables us to examine the question if the …

According to the British academic Laurence Whitehead (2002), each country manages
differently and finds its own solution to the demands of truth and justice in relation to its …