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Welcome to Monika
Nalepa’s webpage!
I joined the Faculty
of Political Science at Rice University
in July 2005 after receiving my PhD from Columbia
University in May 2005.
I research transitional
justice, that is, ways in which new democracies deal with members and
collaborators of the former authoritarian regime. More specifically, I
examine how democratic institutions, such as parliaments, elections,
constitutions and veto players affect transitional justice outcomes. I call
this a “positive” or “explanatory” approach to
transitional justice.
I am also working on
a project on designing institutions of transitional justice (the ETR
and ITR project) which applies methods of mechanism design to
transitional justice.
This research agenda
has led me to explore other fields in comparative politics, such as formal
models of legislatures, constitutional design and electoral reform.
My primary, but not
only, regional focus is East-Central Europe.
I have conducted surveys and elite interviews on transitional justice in Poland, the Czech
Republic, and Hungary.
Very recently I have
started a new project on former Yugoslavia (please see my working papers for details).
I have organized two
conferences on transitional justice: at Columbia
University in 2002 (with Danielle
Cellemayer) and Laguna
Beach in 2004 (with Marek Kaminski)
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