shifted from authoritarian rule to democracy between 1970 and 2004 (Reiter & Fishman. 2016). The data was then reduced to 58 countries by taking a cut-off date of only those countries that had made transitions since 1988. The rationale here was that 1988 marked the end of the Cold War, the beginning of serious revolts against Soviet rule, and the beginning of more serious-minded adherence to human rights treaties and conventions internationally, as well as the increasing insistence on human rights observance and rule of law in development assistance. The changes in Eastern Europe had a marked effect throughout the world, and removed the easy position for the Non-Aligned Movement countries of playing off the East against the West, with the persistence of many highly authoritarian regimes tolerated by either of these two major power blocs in return for political support. For countries had more than one transition, we took the most recent year of transition that fell within the selected time period, 1988 to 2004. The ITJDBP data covers a number of fields dealing with the type of authoritarian regime, the type of transition, the transitional mechanisms applied pre-transition, and the transitional mechanisms applied post-transition. To these fields were added the overall scores and the sub-category scores from the Freedom House Democracy Index for the period 2006 to 2014. These were added in order to gain some indication of the democratic status for the selected countries since it is implicit in this study that some estimate can be made of the contribution of transitional justice mechanisms, both pre and post-transition, to the development of democracy. The final set of data fields were as follows: PRE-TRANSITION Transition type Regime type  Authoritarian Regime Type  Civil war  Civilian-individual  Civilian-institutional  Military-individual  Military-institutional  Authoritarian Regime Length (no. of years)                State created Collapse Domestic overthrow Emergence from civil war Foreign overthrow Negotiated- regime led Negotiated- opposition led Transitional justice mechanisms Amnesty Truth Commission Domestic criminal prosecutions Foreign criminal prosecutions Civil trials Reparations Vetting Customary justice Transitional justice mechanisms        Amnesty Truth Commission Domestic criminal prosecutions Foreign criminal prosecutions Civil trials Reparations Vetting POST-TRANSITION Freedom House Democracy Index Score (2006 to 2014)  Free, Partly Free, Not Free  Political Rights  Civil Liberties  Electoral Process  Political Pluralism and Participation  Functioning of Government  Freedom of Expression and Belief  Associational and Organizational Rights  Rule of Law  Personal Autonomy and Individual Rights The edited data set was then converted from text into fields in an Excel spread sheet. Binary scores for each of the above were then created in a separate spread sheet, thus giving frequency scores for each field, and allowing comparison of the selected countries. There 12