Monika Nalepa

Assistant Professor of Political Science  (On leave AY 2011-12 as Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University)
(PhD, Columbia University, 2005) 
(On leave AY 2011-2012)
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: “Reconciliation, Refugee Returns, and the Impact of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” in Nomos L: Transitional Justice, Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster, eds. (forthcoming); “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).