Global Transitional Justice Dataset (NSF award # 1658170)

The Global Transitional Justice Dataset codes personnel transitional justice events --lustrations, purges (leadership and thorough), and truth commission. After assigning each event to one of four categories it is coded as a negative or positive event (see notes below). The number of positive and negative TJ events was then aggregated to create an annual panel, with countries as the cross section and time since transition as the temporal dimension. A panel assembled in this way allows for the creation of many different measures of personnel TJ. In addition, the raw chronologies (available with the PI) allow researchers to experiment with different systems of disaggregation.