1st Edition
Social Justice and Political Change Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-communist States
Edited By David Mason
Copyright 1995
374 Pages
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Routledge
359 Pages
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Routledge
359 Pages
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Routledge
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Analysis and debate about economic and political justice rarely involves research on the views of the common person. Scholars often make assumptions about what common people think is fair, but for the most part they confine their thinking to a single country and argue on rational or moral grounds, with little supporting empirical data. Social Justice and Political Change, involves the... Read more
1: The International Social Justice Project; I: Justice in Political Perspective; 2: Distributive Justice: Does It Matter What the People Think? 1; 3: Justice, Socialism, and Participation in the Postcommunist States; 4: Justice Beliefs and Support for the Welfare State in Advanced Capitalism; II: Microjustice; 5: Comparative Referential Structures, System Legitimacy, and Justice Sentiments: An International Comparison 1; 6: Justice Evaluation of Income Distribution in East and West 1; 7: Justice Psychophysics in the Real World: Comparing Income Justice and Income Satisfaction in East and West Germany; III: Ideology and Justice; 8: Accounting for the Rich and the Poor: Existential Justice in Comparative Perspective; 9: Egalitarian vs. Inegalitarian Principles of Distributive Justice; 10: Dominant Ideologies and the Variation of Distributive Justice Norms: A Comparison of East and West Germany, and the United States 1; IV: Social Structure and Justice Beliefs; 11: Hierarchical and Social Closure Conceptions of Distributive Social Justice: A Comparison of East and West Germany 1; 12: The Caring But Unjust Women? A Comparative Study of Gender Differences in Perceptions of Social Justice in Four Countries 1
Biography
David Mason
