Theories Of Distributive Justice Research Articles

Winter is coming: How laypeople think about different kinds of needs.

Needs play a key role in many fields of social sciences and humanities, ranging from normative theories of distributive justice to conceptions of the welfare state. Over time, different conceptions of what counts as a need (i. e., what is considered a normatively relevant need) have been proposed. Many of them include (in one way or the other) needs for survival, decency, belonging, and autonomy. Little work has been done on how these kinds of needs are evaluated in terms of their significance for distributive justice. To begin closing this gap, we investigate the role of the four aforementioned kinds of needs for impartial observers. We do so in two empirical studies. The first study asks participants to evaluate the importance of each of the four kinds of needs separately. We find that different levels of importance are attributed to the kinds of needs, which places them in a hierarchy. The second study asks participants to make distributive decisions. Results further support the hierarchy found in the first study and, additionally, reveal that participants tend to make coherent allocation decisions.

Challenges Hampering Adoption of Different Housing Models to Access Housing by Households in Nairobi County

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the challenges hindering the adoption of diverse housing models for household access to housing in Nairobi County, Kenya. Utilizing the Public Interest Economic Regulation Theory (PIERT), the Q Theory of Housing Investment, and the Theory of Distributive Justice, the research explores the interplay between government regulations, market forces, and social equity in the context of affordable housing.
 Methodology: Employing a descriptive research design, the study investigates the impact of housing regulations on housing access through mortgage and cooperative models. The research sample comprises 385 households, CEOs of housing financing organizations, and government officers. By analyzing the usage prevalence of housing models, the study delves into challenges such as high-interest rates, limited mortgage financing access, and insufficient awareness about housing options. The research employs a nuanced approach, considering the competitive dynamics within the housing sector and the need for equitable resource distribution.
 Findings: The study reveals that the mortgage model is most prevalent (41.4%), followed by the incremental model (28.0%) and cooperative model (23.7%). High-interest rates, restricted mortgage financing access, and inadequate awareness about housing options emerge as significant challenges hampering housing model adoption. Additionally, housing regulations, vital for safety, impact affordability, with 39.2% of respondents acknowledging this influence. 
 Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: This study contributes valuable insights to the existing body of knowledge by synthesizing the PIER, Q Theory of Housing Investment, and Theory of Distributive Justice. The study therefore validates these theories by offering a comprehensive understanding of the intricate interplay between regulations, market dynamics, and social equity in the adoption of affordable housing models. The recommendations, including lowering mortgage interest rates, enhancing financing access, promoting awareness about housing models, and fostering collaborative efforts among stakeholders, provide actionable strategies for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to improve housing access in Nairobi County.

Stakeholder perspectives on fairness in the marketplace: Empirical evidence from the Kenyan alcohol market

Issues of fairness relate to distributive justice (DJ), which is concerned with how a society distributes benefits and burdens. Whilst marketing theory has considered fairness in the distribution of basic goods, we lack insight into stakeholder perspectives on fairness for goods such as alcohol, which can be problematic, due to their global health and social burden. This study examines stakeholder perspectives on fairness from the Kenyan alcohol marketplace. Using longitudinal ethnographic data, we draw on two DJ theories, (egalitarianism and prioritarianism), to examine fairness perspectives of different stakeholders, their problem diagnosis, and proposed solutions to fairness challenges in the alcohol marketplace. By so doing, we give voice to previously unheard stakeholders, and expose some of the potential theoretical foundations for competing notions of fairness. The study also exemplifies the linkages between different forms of fairness and proposes a fairness chain as a framework for evaluating fairness in the marketplace.

Not So Ambitious? Indonesia’s Coal Dependence Amidst The Era of Energy Transition

Indonesia ratified the Paris Agreement to combat climate change and pledged to reduce its carbon emissions. This commitment, however, contrasts Indonesia's development plan under Joko Widodo's administration. His policy has enabled the development of additional power plants, hence perpetuating Indonesia's reliance on coal. Thus, it is essential to examine why Indonesia is still struggling to break free from its dependence on coal, despite its ambitious goal to tackle climate change. This paper will apply the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory to explore how security is defined and shapes Indonesia's energy transition process. Furthermore, this research will use distributive and procedural justice theory to examine the decision-making process and climate change policy implementation. In order to accomplish so, we will employ qualitative methods such as desk studies, which will comprise academic literature as well as government statements and regulations. This paper argues that Indonesia's energy transition is impeded by how other security issues are prioritised above climate change. In addition, the lack of justice principles in the climate policy formulation and implementation has contributed to Indonesia's reliance on coal. Since Indonesia is the world's largest coal exporter and one of the top ten global polluters, this study intends to contribute to identifying challenges in the transition to renewable energy.Keywords: Indonesia; coal dependence; energy transition; securitisation; distributive and procedural justice

Keadilan Distributif Atas Pembagian Harta Bersama yang Digunakan Sebagai Sompa Perkawinan Bugis Secara Sepihak

Joint assets are in the continuity of marriage until the marriage ends due to divorce, death, or because of a court decision, as well as the end of the marriage as regulated in Article 38 of the Marriage Law. Joint assets give the impact that ownership is jointly owned by husband and wife. The purpose of this study is to analyze the application of the theory of distributive justice to the division of joint property that is used as sompa unilaterally in Decision Number 276/Pdt/2020/PT Mks. Through legal research with normative juridical research methods, the following research is produced. In terms of the theory of distributive justice, the distribution of joint assets used as dowry sompa unilaterally with a portion of ½ for men and ½ for women do not fully contain the value of justice, because in this distribution it is necessary to consider the size of the business of the parties in the acquisition of the assets so that the parties get rights based on what they earn.

Discrimination Based on Personal Responsibility: Luck Egalitarianism and Healthcare Priority Setting.

Luck egalitarianism is a responsibility-sensitive theory of distributive justice. Its application to health and healthcare is controversial. This article addresses a novel critique of luck egalitarianism, namely, that it wrongfully discriminates against those responsible for their health disadvantage when allocating scarce healthcare resources. The philosophical literature about discrimination offers two primary reasons for what makes discrimination wrong (when it is): harm and disrespect. These two approaches are employed to analyze whether luck egalitarian healthcare prioritization should be considered wrongful discrimination. Regarding harm, it is very plausible to consider the policies harmful but much less reasonable to consider those responsible for their health disadvantages a socially salient group. Drawing on the disrespect literature, where social salience is typically not required for something to be discrimination, the policies are a form of discrimination. They are, however, not disrespectful. The upshot of this first assessment of the discrimination objection to luck egalitarianism in health is, thus, that it fails.

Questioning Day Zero: Rights, Provision, and Water Inequality in South Africa

The City of Cape Town experienced one of its worst droughts in 2015–2018, resulting in the Cape Water Crisis. This crisis revealed existing and new inequalities in how the city distributed water. I conducted fieldwork in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa, against the backdrop of the crisis, to investigate how the city’s response to the drought worsened water inequality in informal settlements. Geography and poor water governance negatively affected water service delivery within the city, and townships as contested spaces faced the greatest inequality. I analyzed the city’s water management policy and strategies, conducted in-depth interviews with service providers who dealt directly with water distribution in Khayelitsha, and interviewed residents in different settlements of the township. As water inequality is relative, the study required a comparative basis to make the argument of unequal distribution using John Rawls’ theory of distributive justice. Literature at the time, in general, looked at inequality across different and distant settlements, with comparisons between the township as a monolith and the central business district and suburbs. I focused on inequality by studying two settlements within the same township. Although water inequality was caused by spatial inequality, it is upheld by a host of sociopolitical factors. The South African Constitution may enshrine water as a basic human right, but experiences from Khayelitsha reveal a cost-recovery model for water service delivery that prioritizes paying customers and disregards the poor.

Translating theories of justice into a practice model for triage of scarce intensive care resources during a pandemic.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, national triage guidelines were developed to address the anticipated shortage of life-saving resources, should ICU capacities be overloaded. Rationing and triage imply that in addition to individual patient interests, interests of population health have to be integrated. The transfer of theoretical and empirical knowledge into feasible and useful practice models and their implementation in clinical settings need to be improved. This paper analyzes how triage protocols could translate abstract theories of distributive justice into concrete material and procedural criteria for rationing intensive care resources during a pandemic. We reconstruct the development and implementation of a rationing protocol at a German university hospital: describing the ethical challenge of triage, clarifying the aspirational norms, and summarizing specific norms of fair triage and allocation for developing an institutional policy and practice model and implementing it. We reflect on how critical topics are seen by clinicians and what helped manage the perceived burdens of the triage dilemma. We analyze what can be learned from this debate regarding the difficult issues around triage protocols and their potential implementation into clinical settings. Analyzing the ought-to-is gap of triage, integrating abstract ethical principles into practical concepts, and evaluating those should clarify the benefits and risks of different allocation options. We seek to inform debates on triage concepts and policies to ensure the best possible treatment and fair allocation of resources as well as to help protect patients and professionals in worst-case scenarios.

КОНЦЕПЦИЯ «БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЯ НА РАБОЧЕМ МЕСТЕ» КАК ЧАСТь СОВРЕМЕННыХ КОРПОРАТИВНыХ ПРОГРАММ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ПЕРСОНАЛОМ

This article discusses the essence and features of the formation of one of the modern corporate programs for personnel management — workplace well-being concept (WPWBC). It is noted that the main goal of this concept is to increase the level of well-being of personnel, their deep and productive involvement in the company’s activities. The main components that affect the productivity of workers from the position of the WPWBC are considered. These are programs that affect: physical and psychological health , a comfortable working environment, financial well-being and professional growth. The essence of these components and the advanced directions of their development are analyzed. The relationship between the theory of justice and WPWBC is shown. The theory of distributive justice is based on the belief that employees become demotivated towards their job and their employer if they believe that their contribution is greater than what they receive as a result of their work in the organization. According to this theory, finding a fair balance between what employees contribute and what they receive in the organization serves the purpose of ensuring a strong and productive relationship between the organization and the employee.

Integrating First Nations peoples' cultural capital for sustainable development

AbstractFirst Nations peoples occupy one‐quarter of the world's land area, safeguarding 80% of its biodiversity. Sustainable development frameworks acknowledge and include culture's role but fail to give it a special place, specifically First Nations peoples' (Indigenous) cultures. Hence, this study presents a sustainable development model that recognises their cultures—the underlying motivation is that adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) as the 2030 Sustainability Agenda for these peoples' cultural capital development has posed two challenges. First, the goal‐related targets and indicators are objectified, encouraging these to be attained as separate goals, but since First Nations cultures are based on relationships and interconnectedness, thinking linearly about these goals misaligns with these cultures. Second, these targets and indicators are not framed to provide special recognition and inclusion of these peoples' cultural knowledge as crucial for sustainable development. Therefore, this study uses the Gaia theory, the theory of distributive justice and the interaction theory of First Nations cultures to propose an empirically testable structural equation model for analysing empirical data using the UN SDGs as goal posts, towards advancing sustainable development. A model application is proposed for non‐governmental organisations serving First Nations peoples. The integrated model shows the interrelationships between various types of capital, including these peoples' cultural capital, required for sustainable development.

The importance of contingently public goods

The importance of contingently public goods

Relational and associational justice in work

Abstract This Article explores the idea that the moral standards of relational or interpersonal justice can be used to lay the foundations for a theory of justice in work, rather than relying on principles of justice developed for society as a whole in philosophical theories of distributive justice. It is argued that a rich and distinctive scheme of interpersonal justice can be developed by using a method of internal critique and by focusing on two distinctive features of contracts of employment. Because they are incomplete by design, like other relational contracts, contracts of employment depend for their success on a broad obligation of performance in good faith. Contracts of employment also usually function within organizations which provide the source of customary norms of associational justice that govern relations between members of the firm. These principles of associational justice include rewards based on desert, a strong egalitarian principle, protection from unjustified exclusion, and a right to have a voice in the affairs and the direction of the organization.

Responsibility in Universal Healthcare

Responsibility in Universal Healthcare

Responsibility in Universal Healthcare

Responsibility in Universal Healthcare

A Comparison Between the Confucianism’s and Aristotle’s View of Distributive Justice — The Thoughts Based on Contemporary Development

Throughout the over 2000 years of feudal rule in ancient China, the Confucianism’s distributive justice has played an important role. The principles of Humanity, Differential Distribution and Equal Opportunity had a lasting impact on social development even in modern times. While in ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle has specifically discussed the view of distributive justice, especially in the content of the distribution principle of “Equality of Values and Proportional Equality” and "Principle of Differential Distribution", whose content was later being developed and enriched continuously by various schools of thought. This paper has systematically introduced the contents and principles of the Confucianism’s and Aristotle’s view of distributive justice. Aimed at the historical background and the view of the theory of the comparison of existing value and its limitation, this paper reveals the value of the view of distributive justice. This paper reveals the value of distributive justice in different times, cultures and systems. By studying the view of distributive justice at all times and in all over the world, the paper is intended to seek solution to the increasing social disparities and injustices in modern states in their processes of building harmonious societies, so that the theory of distributive justice will display a new vitality.

The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field?

AbstractMethodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social sciences recognized it as a source of bias, but not the ethics of immigration. Is this field biased by methodological nationalism—and if so, to what extent? This article takes nationalism as an implicit bias and provides a method to assess its depth. The method consists in comparing principles that ethicists commonly discuss when immigration is not at stake with principles advocated in the ethics of immigration. To interpret the results, a distinction between mild and heavy bias is established. When a basic principle in ethics is underdiscussed or absent from the ethics of immigration, the field is ‘mildly biased’. When its negation is commonly advocated, the field is ‘heavily biased’. Here, the method is illustrated with two principles: equal opportunity and reparation. They are common in theories of distributive justice and of corrective justice, respectively. But in the ethics of immigration, scholars often argue for the opposite. Instead of equal opportunity, they implicitly support discrimination based on national origin; instead of sanctions or amnesty for the offenders, scholars plead amnesty for those who they otherwise regard as victims. These preliminary results suggest that the field is heavily biased: methodological nationalism seems to turn ethics into its opposite.

Teaching Justice as Fairness as a Theory of Distributive Justice

Highlighting a progression of exercises, this paper develops a pedagogical model aimed at giving students tools to deliberate about justice from within the Original Position and to debate the broader goals and limitations of justice as fairness. The approach focuses on the idea of a “distribution” of primary goods without relying on caricatures or being intimidated by the more technical features of the presentation. The series of exercises shows students how to move from more intuitive to less intuitive deliberative situations—a move that depends on seeing a just distribution as a product of a pure procedure. In particular, the exercises show the importance of distinguishing carefully between a distribution and an allocation of goods. Finally, it suggests ways in which we may use the theory to engage with our own distributive practices in democratic societies by focusing on the moral significance of persons as equals.

Granting a compulsory will to grandfather and grandmother based on Aristotle's distributive theory

There is no legal basis for giving testament wajibah to a grandparent in Indonesia. However, the Religious Courts of Tarakan, in decision number: 610/Pdt.G/2014/PA.Trk. the judges gave testament wajibah portion of the inheritance to the grandparent because the heir’s mother blocked their position and the parenting role carried out by the grandparent since the mother left the heir, and her existence was unknown. The judge’s decision must consider the principles of legal certainty, benefits, and a sense of justice for the parties. Therefore, this research focuses on the judge’s legal reasoning in decision number: 610/Pdt.G/2014/PA.Trk. and how the judge’s decision is seen from the perspective of Aristotle’s distributive justice theory. This research is juridical-normative with cases and conceptual approaches. The results showed that the judge’s legal reasoning through the process of de heuristic and de legitimate, legal basis that judges used are the holy Qur’an, hadith, KHI, and Islamic law. The judges consider the role of grandparents during the heir to life. And giving testament wajibah to grandparents is considered fair based on Aristotle’s distributive justice theory because they have fulfilled the proportional principle requirements.How to cite item: Saiban, K., Al Kaswy, TR., SJ, F., (2022). The granting of compulsory wills to grandparents in judgment number: 610/Rev.G/2014/PA.trk is based on Aristotle's distributive theory. Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum, 13(3)272-280. doi:10.26905/idjch.v13i3.8855.

Distributive justice criteria and social categorization processes predict healthcare allocation bias.

Drawing on theories of distributive justice and intergroup discrimination, we examined how much distributive justice criterion and racial group membership contribute to bias in healthcare allocation decisions, by testing a theoretical model that specifies perceived stereotypicality and individual responsibility as a serial mediation process in the relationship between disease's contraction controllability (controllable vs. non-controllable) and bias in medical decision-making. White Portuguese medical students (N=213) participated in an online experimental study conducted in two phases. In phase 1, we manipulated the cause of disease contagion and the salience of patient's racial categorization, and measured the stereotypicality of behaviour. In phase 2, we assessed perceived responsibility and likelihood of recommending medical treatment. Controllable (vs. non-controllable) contraction behaviours in phase 1 were perceived as more stereotypic. As a spillover effect, more stereotypical behaviours in phase 1 predicted more patient's responsibility for their disease in phase 2. Importantly, controllable behaviours of disease contraction in phase 1 negatively affected recommendations for medical treatment in phase 2; and this negative effect was serially mediated by the stereotypicality of behaviour and patient responsibility. Furthermore, patients' skin colour moderated this process, meaning that perceptions of controllable behaviour as more stereotypic were stronger for Black than for White patients. This research shows how stereotyping and social categorization bias allocation decisions through the patient's level of responsibility in decision-making processes. The findings are discussed in light of principles of distributive justice and the literature on intergroup relations with respect to racial disparities in health care.

KEADILAN DISTRIBUTIF DALAM EKONOMI ISLAM

Fair distribution of wealth is a manifestation of justice in Islam. In contrast to the pre-existing distributive justice theory, Islam regulates justice in a comprehensive way. The writing is processed using the literature study method obtained from various books, journals, and other related references. Distributive justice in the Islamic perspective is not related to the benefits that will be obtained in this world, but also in the hereafter. Islam demands maximizing benefit for the common good and minimizing harm. The concept offered by Islam is able to be a balancer as well as a solution for equality and justice in a social order.