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work_mkqcb22drbc6ddu4n6upiou3sa	Monika Nalepa	Transitional justice and authoritarian backsliding	2020	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10783	860	60	Transitional justice (TJ) comprises the set of procedures designed by a country recovering from conflict or authoritarian rule to come to terms with its past (Kaminski et al. Poland and Hungary, the two post-communist countries that were slow to implement TJ, or adopted it half-heartedly, are also the ones leading the pack in backsliding into autocracy, though for entirely different reasons than those posited by erosion.4 In a 2020 paper, Milan Svolik formalizes a scenario where elite polarization is so high that citizens prefer to elect an autocrat who is ideologically closer to In Svolik's model, elite polarization drives voters to knowingly elect an openly autocratic incumbent into office because the cost of being ruled by an ideologically distant challenger is too high. interpreting the constitution at odds with the ruling party would risk having its decision reversed by the PiS-controlled Supreme Court. requires polarization in the electorate and a negative effect of beliefs that the policies implemented by PiS are those of a closet autocrat.	./cache/work_mkqcb22drbc6ddu4n6upiou3sa.pdf	./txt/work_mkqcb22drbc6ddu4n6upiou3sa.txt