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“Winter’s book makes a number of contributions to thinking about redress and transitional justice, but the legitimating account is the most important. … Transitional Justice in Established Democracies includes the best theoretical discussion of reparation yet written, and it should herald a new way of thinking about injustice and redress.” (Stephen Galoob, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 50, 2016)
Stephen Winter brings together transitional, redress, and liberal political theory in an illuminating approach to understanding state redress as a specifically political project of normative legitimation. This smartly written and incisively argued book sets a new bar for transitional, reparative, and historical justice theory. It is a tour de force of synoptic analysis and close consideration of specific cases of official redress in stable democracies.
Margaret Urban Walker, Donald J. Schuenke Chair in Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Marquette University, USA
This remarkable book draws together theories of transitional justice, legitimacy and political authority to explain why redress for historical injustices in Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand counts as transitional justice. Winter combines a description of how these states have dealt with historical injustices with a persuasive account of why wrongs of states require redress.Janna Thompson, Faculty of Humainities and Social Sciences, Latrobe University, Australia
'Tightly argued and thoroughly provocative, Winter's study develops a rigorous descriptive theory that forces readers to reconsider the meaning and function of state redress. In so doing, his book brings clarity to a subject whose study is still muddled by emotional arguments and shaky a priori assertions [...] It challenges the orthodoxies of transitional justice scholarship, calls into question some of its principal intellectual categories, and, ultimately, expands the boundaries in which transitional justice scholars and practitioners can think and work.' - Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory
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Book Title: Transitional Justice in Established Democracies
Book Subtitle: A Political Theory
Authors: Stephen Winter
Series Title: International Political Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316196
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28523-1Published: 21 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33038-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31619-6Published: 21 March 2014
Series ISSN: 2662-6039
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6047
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 310
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political History, Democracy, Political Science