When Justice Demands Inequality

Property-Owning Democracy and the Demands of Justice

Poverty , Inequality and Social Justice in Nonmetropolitan America

Social inequality in health, responsibility and egalitarian justice.

Are social inequalities in health unjust when brought about by differences in lifestyle? A widespread idea, luck egalitarianism, is that inequality stemming from individuals' free choices is not to be considered unjust, since individuals, presumably, are themselves responsible for such choices. Thus, to the extent that lifestyles are in fact results of free choices, social inequality in health ...

Mapping the Exact Relations between Inequality and Justice

According to justice analysis, there are two fundamental justice-related human operations. First, humans form ideas about what is just. Second, humans judge the justice or injustice of actual situations, forming a justice evaluation. The justice evaluation is thought to be produced by comparison of an actual situation to a just situation, where "just" always means "just in the eyes of the obser...

Social Inequality and the Perceived Income Justice Gap

This paper attempts to answer the question whether justice evaluations of income inequality in a society are determined more by country differences or by the social position an observer occupies. In very general terms what we study is whether, in shaping justice beliefs, cultural factors are more important than social-structural ones, or vice versa. In view of transformation societies, country ...