Democracy and retribution: Transitional justice and regime support in postwar West Germany
How harshly should perpetrators of past abuses be punished, to reinforce the legitimacy of a new democracy? Drawing on sociopsychological theories, we hypothesize that prodemocratic mass attitudes are favored by the perception that defendants in transitional justice trials have been punished in a wa...
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SAGE Publications
2019
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