transitional justice

This study asks whether symbolic transitional-justice sites — specifically a museum dedicated to past human-rights abuses — can shift citizens’ attitudes. The authors report results from a field experiment conducted at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, tested on university students to measure whether a museum visit affects support for democratic institutions, rejection of repressive-period institutions, and support for restorative transitional-justice policies. The abstract frames effects as present across ideological priors and notes partial persistence up to six months after the visit.

A novel dataset quantifies personnel transitional justice events from 1946 to 2016, measuring their severity during democratization periods. This research fills a gap by including both post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts. Unlike existing datasets, our approach disaggregates accountability measures temporally.