Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil. By Natasha Borges Sugiyama. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 288. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. References. Index. $35.00 paper.
de facto behavior. Finally, in the book there is perhaps too much optimism about the benefits of trials for past human rights violations. Skaar argues that whereas truth commissions bring only truth, trials bring both truth and justice. However, because of the aforementioned legal and political problems associated with those trials, the outcome might also be disappointing. As a former East German victim said after a transitional justice trial: "We wanted justice, but we got the rule of law."