The Appeal of Appeals

• In Event: New Political Elites: Formation, Consolidation, and Contestation

Abstract

In this paper, we use the case of Post-Communist Poland to illustrate how new policy elites at the central level resolved the dilemma of how to correct decisions of whom to fire made at the decentralized level. After placing our question within the general literature on appeals and two-stage decision processes, in general, we explain how the transitional justice context adds nuance to this dilemma. In this extension of the baseline model from Chapter 2, we allow initial decisions of verification commissions to be appealed. After comparing these results to the baseline model, we illustrate them with the archival data from on appealing verifications from the IPN.

Authors

• Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago

• Barbara Maria Piotrowska, King's College London