Disentangling Justice Needs, Equality or Merit? On the Situation-Dependency of Distributive Justice

• Main Author: Gilgen, Sandra (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2022
• Series: Gesellschaftsanalyse Band 2
• Subjects: , JMH, LAQ; equality, Gerechtigkeit, Gesellschaft, Gleichheit, Individual, Society, distributive justice, distributional survey experiments, allocation norms, fairness, merit, need
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

What is fair? The choice of an allocation norm, whether it be need, merit or equality, can either foster cooperation or conflict. Because of the general irreconcilability of these principles of justice, people are forced to make complex trade-offs when allocating resources. The resulting decisions a...