Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Trust and Transitional Justice
2: Classifying Countries Within the Transitional Justice Typology
3: Building Trust in Public Institutions
4: Trust in Government and Government Effectiveness
5: Collaboration, Complicity, and Historical Memory
6: Lustration, Public Disclosures, and Social Trust
7: Transitional Justice in Support of Democratization
8: Conclusion: Evaluating Post-Communist Transitional Justice
Appendix 1: Lustration, Public Disclosure, and File Access Laws and Policies
Appendix 2: Timeline of Regional Transitional Justice and Lustration Programs (1990-2012)
Appendix 3: Data Sources and Transformations
Appendix 4: Replications

About the Author

Cynthia M. Horne is Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. Her recent research has focused on assessing the impact of transitional justice measures on trust-building, societal reconciliation and democratization in the post-communist transitions. Her articles have appeared in peer reviewed journals, such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Comparative Political Studies, Problems of
Post-Communism, Law & Social Inquiry, and Europe-Asia Studies.