Monika Nalepa
Assistant Professor of Political Science
(PhD, Columbia University, 2005)
439 Decio
574-631-6828
email: mnalepa@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~mnalepa/#index
Geographic focus: Post-Communist Europe
Thematic interests: Transitional justice, post-communist legislatures; Game-theoretic approaches to institutions of transitional justice and democratization.
Current research: How parties changed the Sejm—using disaggregated voting records to study the transition from a consensus-based to a majoritarian-dominated parliament; strategies of party influence and survival in the Polish parliament.
Selected Publications: "Tolerating Mistakes: How Do Popular Perceptions of Procedural Fairness Affect Demand for Transitional Justice?" Journal of Conflict Resolution (April, 2012); “Reconciliation, Refugee Returns, and the Impact of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” in NOMOS, Proceedings of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 51, eds. Melissa Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster (New York University Press, 2012); “Captured Commitments: An Analytic Narrative of Transitions with Transitional Justice,” World Politics 62, 2 (2010); Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010); “Lustration and the Survival of Parliamentary Parties,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 5, 2 (2009); “Punish All Perpetrators or Protect the Innocent? Comparing Systems of Transitional Justice,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 20, 2 (2008); coeditor, “A Special Issue on Transitional Justice,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006); coauthor, “Judging Transitional Justice: A New Criterion for Evaluating Truth Revelation Procedures,” and coauthor, “Strategic and Normative Aspects of Transitional Justice,” both in Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006).
