Overview
- Presents an interdisciplinary discussion of need as a principle of distributive justice
- Places need-based justice within the context of justice conceptions
- Uses a common methodological base in laboratory and field experimental research
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identification of Needs
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Structures and Processes of the Recognition of Needs
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Welfare Consequences of Prioritizing Need-Based Distributions
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Keywords
- Need-based distributive justice
- Identification of needs
- Social recognition of needs
- Social groups
- Political recognition of needs
- Welfare
- Social utility
- Justice principles
- Prioritization in the health care sector
- Pandemic
- Covid-19
- Social equity
- Welfare state
- Social identity
- Decision-making
- Equality
- Administrative processes
About this book
In eleven chapters scholars from the fields of economics, political science, philosophy, psychology, and sociology cover the identification and rationale of needs, the recognition and legitimacy of needs, the dynamics and stability of procedures of distributions according to needs, and the consequences and sustainability of need-based distributions. These four areas are studied from the perspective of two mechanisms of need objectification, the social objectification by the discursive generation of mutual understanding (transparency) and the factual objectification by the transfer of decisions to uninvolved experts (expertise).
The volume addresses academics in the fields of justice research, ethics, political theory, social choice and welfare, framing, individual and group decision making, inequality and redistribution, as well as advanced students in the contributing disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bernhard Kittel is a professor of economic sociology at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on distributive justice attitudes and behaviour, and group decision making. He is co-editor, with Stefan Traub, of “Need-based Distributive Justice. An Interdisciplinary Perspective” (Springer 2020). Further research areas cover aspects of labour markets and welfare states, in particular labour market participation of young people, refugees, and marginalized groups. He has been a principal investigator of the interdisciplinary research group “Need-based justice and distribution procedures”. Recent papers have been published, i.a., in PLoS One, Experimental Economics, Social Science Research, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Stefan Traub is a professor of behavioral economics at Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on individual and group decision-making, social preferences, and the provision of public goods. He is co-editor, with Bernhard Kittel, of “Need-based Distributive Justice. An Interdisciplinary Perspective” (Springer 2020). He has been the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research group “Need-based justice and distribution procedures” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent papers have been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Priority of Needs?
Book Subtitle: An Informed Theory of Need-based Justice
Editors: Bernhard Kittel, Stefan Traub
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53051-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53050-0Published: 30 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53053-1Due: 30 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53051-7Published: 29 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Public Administration, Personality and Social Psychology, Political Philosophy