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Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland

This book received the 2012 Concepts and Methods Award for Concept Analysis in Political Science, which is given every two years at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). For the award, the notion of “concept analysis” is understood broadly. It covers concept analysis, concept formation, and conceptual innovation as well as the fields of operationalization, measurement, and data collection. The jury for the 2012 award were: Bernhard Kittel, University of Vienna (chair), Michael Freeden, University of Oxford and Amy Poteete, Concordia University. The award citation states:

“In summary, Lustration and Transitional Justice is a tight, coherent and well-structured study. It focuses on an issue with remarkable conceptual clarity and innovation, and attendant methodological backup. It is based on a convincing comparative setting and a persuasive case by case analysis. Conceptual analysis is executed on parallel levels of abstraction and sophistication. Its attraction is that it departs from the conventional technical arguments that the area of concept analysis often attracts, by following through the nuances of a concept with empirical and historical evidence of those nuances.”

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The submitted output is a single-authored monograph of 328 pages. It is a result of more than a decade long research project, which was supported by the United Institute of Peace, Wits University, Yale, and Newcastle University. It presents results of surveys conducted in three countries, analyses of existing survey data, analyses of parliamentary debates, and in depth interviews.