Chapter 5. Accountability on Trial

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part One: Framing, Comparing, Historicizing
6. Chapter 1. Framing the Rule of Lawin East-Central Europe 3
7. Chapter 2. Comparing: Decommunization—Recommunization—Reform? 26
8. Chapter 3. Historicizing the Rule of Law 40
9. Part Two: Ethnography Of Criminality
10. Chapter 4. The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality 59
11. Chapter 5. Accountability on Trial 80
12. Part Three: Ethnography of Vindication
13. Chapter 6. Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications 99
14. Chapter 7. Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability 111
15. Part Four: Legitimacy
16. Chapter 8. The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy 139
17. Notes 167
18. Bibliography 177
19. Index 187
20. Name Index 195