Economic inequality is usually assumed to be a threat to social cohesion and democracy.
Nevertheless, this opposition of inequality and democracy is based on further assumptions …

Chile is one of the few Latin American countries that has participated in the inequality
module of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) in 1999 and in 2009, allowing …

This contribution compares the importance of ideal standards and existential standards on
people's ideas on fair earnings. Ideal standards refer to persons' preferences for a …

In this paper, value differences in former East and West Germany are studied in order to
determine which values can be expected to change, perhaps leading to a gradual …

The 1990 Bundestag election was a unique event—a referendum on the historic unification
of Germany and the Federal Republic's newly won status as a sovereign state. Because of …

Will man eine Definition von “sozialer Gerechtigkeitsforschung” geben, liegt die
Schwierigkeit darin, daß Gerechtigkeit sowohl eine normative als auch eine deskriptive …

In a questionnaire study, 929 West Germans and 1275 East Germans were asked to
appraise East–West differences in life quality on the labor market 7 years after the German …

This article explores how the German distribution system is assessed with regard to justice
in the fifteen years after unification. It traces the development of perceived justice for East …

Durch die tagespolitische Diskussion um einen" Umbau des Sozialstaates" werden
grundlegende Fragen der Sozialpolitiklehre vernachlässigt. Der Autor versucht daher in der …

During the last years the focus of sociological justice research has been on the
measurement of justice attitudes of the people outside the laboratory via large scale and …