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Disentangling Justice / Principles of Justice in Different Situations and Contexts – Background
Disentangling Justice / Principles of Justice in Different Situations and Contexts – Background
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Chapter 1: Distributive Justice Matters – Introduction
17–24
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A. Justice, Individual Well-Being and Group Functioning
I. Legitimating the Social Order or Striving to Change it
B. What is Justice?
I. What is Fair to Whom, When and Why?
C. Goal and Organisation of the Book
25–80
Chapter 2: Principles of Justice in Different Situations and Contexts – Background
25–80
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A. Principles of Justice
I. Merit
II. Equality
III. Need
B. When Do We Prioritise Which Principle?
I. Mechanisms on the Level of the Individual: A Rational Choice Framework
1. Preferences and Distributive Justice
a) Self-Interest Motive
b) Reciprocity
c) Other-Regarding / Altruistic Preferences and Rationality
2. Beliefs and Distributive Justice
a) Bad Luck versus Lack of Effort
b) Self-Serving Bias
c) Belief in a Just World and Rationalisation
3. Justice and Legitimacy of Inequalities or Inequities
a) Belief in Meritocracy Legitimises Inequalities
b) Equal Opportunities
4. Differential Beliefs and Preferences
a) Class
b) Gender
II. Situations
1. Justice, Social Relations and Group Functioning
2. A Relational View on Distributive Justice
a) Economic Orientation
b) Solidarity Orientation
c) Caring Orientation
d) Order and Authority
e) A Situational Framework
III. Context Matters
1. What is Context?
a) How Contexts Shape Individual Outcomes
b) Socialisation and Culture
c) The American Dream
81–100
Chapter 3: Data and Methods
81–100
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A. Data
I. Samples
1. General Population Sample in Switzerland
2. University of Bern
3. Princeton University
B. Methods
I. Survey Experiments
II. The Distributional Survey Experiment
III. Designs of The Distributional Survey Experiments in Four Situations
1. The DSE in the Friends Situation
2. The DSE in the Work Situation
3. The DSE in the Family Situation
4. The DSE in the Public Goods Situation: Scholarships
IV. Analytical Strategies
1. Treating Outcomes as Independent
2. Treating the Outcomes as Ranks
3. Treating the Outcomes as Shares
4. Considering the Multilevel Structure
101–138
Chapter 4: What is Fair? Empirical Results
101–138
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A. To Each According to Needs or Merit?
I. Descriptive Statistics of Respondent Attributes in the General Population Sample
II. Need and Merit – Different Situations, same Principles?
1. Friends: Justice in an Equality Matching Setting
2. Work: Justice in a Market Pricing Setting
3. Family: Justice in a Communal Sharing Setting
4. Scholarship: Justice in a Public Goods Setting
B. Who distributes equally and when?
I. Gender Differences
II. Class Differences
III. Class Differences Regarding Merit
1. Class and Merit in the Friends Setting
2. Class and Merit in the Work Setting
3. Class and Merit in the Family Setting
4. Class and Merit in the Public Goods Setting
C. How Context Matters
I. Descriptive Statistics of Respondent Attributes in the Student Samples
II. Effects of Context on Allocation Decisions
1. Belief in Meritocracy and Context: Students in Switzerland and the United States compared
a) Students in Bern and Princeton in the Friends Setting
b) Students in Bern and Princeton in the Work Setting
c) Students in Bern and Princeton in the Family Setting
d) Students in Bern and Princeton in the Public Goods Setting
2. Egalitarianism among students in Switzerland and the United States
E. Short Summary of Results
139–150
Chapter 5: Discussion and Conclusion
139–150
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A. Discussion of the Main Findings
I. Gender and Class Effects
II. Situations and Relational Structures – Fair is What Works Best for the Relationship
III. Context Shapes our Opinions on What is Fair
B. Limitations
C. Concluding Thoughts and Implications
151–174
Bibliography
151–174
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Disentangling Justice , page 25 - 80
Principles of Justice in Different Situations and Contexts – Background
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Sandra Gilgen
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doi.org/10.5771/9783748926955-25
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-8305-2
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-2695-5
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