The Leftovers

Holmes, Chris

doi:10.1215/00295132-2088184

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“…Why return property at all? To sum up the complex motivation behind restitution policies, 16 we can divide factors behind such exploits into bottom-up and topdown driven. Bottom-up factors were primarily the claims of former owners and their descendants, the individual decisions of petitioned courts that decided to rule in such cases on the basis of the civil code and not special legislation, but also the entrepreneurship of people having the current use of expropriated property who demanded the legalization of their status, once private property was reinstituted as a norm.…”

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Perpetual Transitions

Mungiu‐Pippidi

Stefan

2011

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article studies comparatively the property restitution policies of Eastern and Western Balkan countries, focusing mostly on internal and external constraints to a permanent solution. The role of the European Court of Human Rights is analyzed in depth, as well as the subtle shift of policy of the EU institutions from the earlier Eastern Balkan accession to the Western Balkans one. While the situation of property restitution in South-Eastern Europe provides clear evidence that Europeanization helps transformation, particularly if the EU openly assumes the role of a transformation agent, it also highlights the limits of its power.

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Section: The Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%