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Economic Justice
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TL;DR: Vidmar as discussed by the authors developed a conceptual framework to study retribution as a psychological and social phenomenon and explored a number of conceptual issues, including how a social science approach differs from legal and philosophical approaches.
Abstract: Retribution and revenge, two highly related concepts, are arguably the oldest, most basic and most pervasive justice reactions associated with human social life. While scholarship about retribution and revenge has tended to focus on criminal justice, empirical evidence indicates that retribution is important in other matters related to law. For example, medical malpractice, discrimination, and a panoply of civil lawsuits can be primarily fueled by a desire for retribution. Retributive motives can appear at the core of intractable business disputes and other commercial disagreements. In this article, Professor Vidmar develops a conceptual framework to study retribution as a psychological and social phenomenon. He explores a number of conceptual issues, including how a social science approach differs from legal and philosophical approaches. His discussion explores the sociological and psychological functions that punishment serves. Separate sections of the article discuss the cognitive dynamics of retribution and its emotional/behavioral aspects as well. The article raises important questions about retribution. Are reactions different if the justice is dispensed by the victim, by neutral authorities, or by "acts of fate" (or God)? What are the consequences when nothing happens to the perpetrator? How does excessive punishment of the offender or remorse affect retributive reactions? The author's insight raises important implications for legal and other settings in which punishment is administered.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: According to just world research, people need to believe that they live in a world in which everyone gets what they deserve and deserves what they get This belief in a just world is conceptualized as an interindividually varying disposition and has important adaptive functions.
Abstract: According to just world research, people need to believe that they live in a world in which everyone gets what they deserve and deserves what they get This belief in a just world is conceptualized as an interindividually varying disposition and has important adaptive functions The stronger this belief is, the more people trust in justice and the more they defend justice in the world, either behaviorally or cognitively, and the better their well-being is
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that even with the incorporation of land policy provisions into Kenya's new constitution, there is every reason to believe that in the near future, highly politicized land conflict will continue.
Abstract: This paper argues that even with the incorporation of land policy provisions into Kenya’s new constitution, there is every reason to believe that in the near future, highly politicized land conflict will continue. This is because land politics in Kenya is a redistributive game that creates winners and losers. Given the intensely redistributive potential of the impending changes in Kenya’s land regime—and the implications of the downward shift in the locus of control over land allocation through decentralization of authority to county governments—there is no guarantee that legislators or citizens will be able to agree on concrete laws to realize the constitution’s calls for equity and justice in land matters. This article traces the main ways in which state power has been used to distribute and redistribute land (and land rights) in the Rift Valley, focusing on post-1960 smallholder settlement schemes, land-buying companies, and settlement in the forest reserves, and it highlights the long-standing pattern of political contestation over the allocation of this resource. It then traces the National Land Policy debate from 2002 to 2010, focusing on the distributive overtones and undertones of the policy and of the debate over the new constitution that incorporated some of its main tenets.
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TL;DR: Van Parijs et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (LJW) for the European Union and the World, 2011.
Abstract: Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World Philippe Van Parijs Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011 xi + 299 pp., ISBN 9780199208876, £27.50, US$45.00 (hardback) Although the title does not s...
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TL;DR: The most important work in political theory since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, the authors presents a brilliantly original, compelling vision of a just society-a world in which each of us may live his own life in his own way without denying the same right to others.
Abstract: Certain to become the most important work in political theory since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, this book presents a brilliantly original, compelling vision of a just society-a world in which each of us may live his own life in his own way without denying the same right to others. Full of provocative discussions of issues ranging from education to abortion, it makes fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the future of the liberal democratic state.
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