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In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this … Theory, as outlined in the Restatement (Rawls 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in … identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly …
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Relying on a recent survey of more than 3300 participants from China, Germany and the US, this paper empirically analyzes citizens' perceptions of climate change and climate policy, focusing on key guiding principles for sharing mitigation costs across countries. The ranking of the main...
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benefits and burdens in a society. The Basic Social Justice Orientations (BSJO) scale is an eight-item scale that measures … in justice research in the past, the BSJO scale is consistent with the current state of empirical justice research …, and ALLBUS 2014. The analysis of these three data sets confirms the assumed four-factorial structure of the justice …
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Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and wellbeing. The most likely ethical basis for HE appears to …
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the debate around the importance of fiscal justice in the promotion of equity …
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Distributive value judgments based on the 'origins' of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible choices) are increasingly evoked to argue that 'the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal'. However, one may reasonably agree that distributive value...
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This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...
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