Social Justice: Outcome and Procedure

Tyler, Tom R.

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“…Former research has suggested that people"s willingness to accept outcomes increases as long as they perceive the decision-making process as fair (Tyler 2000, Gross 2007, Lind and Tyler 1988. Given this major finding across different cases, there is a clear risk that unfair processes can lead to damaged relationships and divided communities (Gross 2007).…”

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Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK

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Transmission lines are critical infrastructures, but frequently contested especially at the local level, by local communities. The role of public engagement in processes pertaining to specific transmission line projects is an under-researched, yet important topic that this paper seeks to discuss by investigating how inhabitants perceive these processes and to what extent they find the processes just and fair. This paper addresses the participatory aspects of the planning process, as perceived by the local inhabitants in four Norway and UK cases, by using a qualitative comparative case study design. We further analyse this issue through frameworks of public engagement and procedural justice. In both countries public engagement is largely characterized by perceptions of insufficient information, and insufficient influence on the process. In sum, the findings indicate that the informants generally perceive the opportunities for involvement as insufficient and unjust. The findings are quite similar across all cases and both countries. Local inhabitants represent diverse groups who often have different levels of knowledge, time and engagement to bring to the planning process. Their requests for improved processes thus underline the serious public engagement challenges that applicants and decision-makers face. Cover Letter 1'Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK' Report on the editing accord. to reviewers' commments:Reviewer #1: Thanks a lot for the opportunity for reviewing this well written drafted article on a topic that has not previously been very well covered in academic journals. Work on public engagement and acceptance is available, but very few has done such an excellent work through the lenses of procedural justice. I find it very valid to apply the key aspects chosen and then to apply these on the empirical findings from Norway and the UK. Well done. This article should be published A.S.A.P. The only minor comment is the final reference to the National Public Debate Commission (NPDC)employed in a French-Spanish transmission line. It could have been interesting to learn whether such a NPDC could influence the assessment of the key aspects chosen to assess procedural justics, but I guess that this is beyond the scope of the article... Response:We have strengthened the reference to the mentioned study. See last sentence in the concluding part, under section 6 Discussion: This knowledge will contribute to a broader understanding of procedural justice as an important dimension of the wider energy justice research field, which is of crucial importance for the further decarbonization of the European energy system.Reviewer #2: This is a very good article-it addresses an important topic, uses a sound methodology, and is well written. It is almost ready to publishing, meaning my recommendation is to accept the piece with a few minor revisions.First, I like how the piece situates itself at the nexus of electrici...

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Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK

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“…Following the concept of procedural fairness, the perceived justice of a certain (policy) outcome depends on the underlying decision making process. Procedurally fair decisions should meet criteria like a voice for everyone, neutral decision makers and transparent decision procedures (as stated by Leventhal, 1980 andTyler, 2000). It has been shown that procedural fairness increases the acceptance of decisions with unfavourable outcomes (e.g., Sondak and Tyler, 2007) as well as the perceived fairness of social inequality (Bischoff et al, 2008).…”

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Don't Tax Me? Determinants of Individual Attitudes Toward Progressive Taxation

Heinemann

Hennighausen

2010

SSRN Journal

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW.Download this ZEW Discussion Paper from our ftp server:ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp10017.pdf Non-Technical SummaryHighly progressive tax systems entail disincentives for private economic activity and, thus, may hamper potential growth. Nevertheless, attempts to introduce alternative tax schedules regularly encounter significant political resistance. The aim of this paper is to widen the understanding of the determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation and, therefore, the assessment of the political feasibility of tax reform proposals.Conventional political-economic theories usually explain redistributive preferences based on a narrow self-interest calculus. These theories however do not offer a rational for the fact that in many industrial countries the majority of voters seem to prefer progressive tax rates. In order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation, our analysis is not confined to pure self-interest but also introduces fairness aspects (e.g., fairness preferences, economic beliefs and fairness assessment of the status quo).Our empirical analysis is based on the representative data from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for the year 2000. Next to information on the respondents' tax rate preferences, this survey offers valuable data on a wide range of individual fairness considerations as well as objective data on the respondents' socioeconomic characteristics.The empirical findings indicate that the individual attitudes toward progressive taxation are not only driven by the corresponding self-interest. Furthermore, fairness considerations play a major role in the formation of tax rate preferences: Persons without strong preferences for a distribution of (financial) means according to the need-principle, who do stress the relevance of individual effort for economic success and judge the present income distribution to be fair are less likely to demand higher tax rates for high income earners than for low income individuals. The finding that individuals do not necessarily choose the tax system that is most beneficial to them but also care about its fairness has important policy implications:A successful selling of (growth-enhancing) tax reforms should address this fairness related concerns as well. Abstract: This contribution empirically analyses the individual determinants of tax rate preferences. For that purpose we make use of the representative German G...

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“…To establish comparable experimental control, all of the studies focused on instantiations supporting the value of equality. This value was selected because of its importance to many social psychological theories (e.g., Katz & Hass, 1988;Tyler, 2000) on a variety of topics (e.g., justice, prejudice, relative deprivation), its importance to the most influential models of values (Rokeach, 1973;Schwartz, 1992), and its fundamental importance to the global discourse about universal human rights (Conte et al, 2004). Because we wanted to make the instantiations as relevant as possible, we used pilot testing to select a single situation that had high perceived relevance to the value of equality and then manipulated typicality within that situation.…”

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Applying the value of equality unequally: Effects of value instantiations that vary in typicality.

Maio¹,

Hahn²,

Frost³

et al. 2009

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Across 4 experiments, the authors investigated the role of value instantiation in bridging the gap between abstract social values and behavior in specific situations. They predicted and found that participants engaged in more egalitarian behavior (point allocation using the minimal group paradigm) after contemplating a typical instantiation of the value of equality compared to an atypical instantiation or a control condition that simply made the value salient. This effect occurred when participants generated reasons for valuing equality in the instantiation (Experiment 1) and when participants merely read about hypothetical examples of the instantiation context (Experiments 2, 3, and 4). Results across experiments indicated that the effect of prior instantiations was not mediated by changes in the abstract value; instead, the process of applying the abstract value was crucial (Experiment 4). Together, the experiments show that the process of applying an abstract value to a specific situation can be influenced by seemingly unrelated prior episodes.

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Social Justice: Outcome and Procedure

Cited by 579 publications

References 58 publications

Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK

Local perceptions of opportunities for engagement and procedural justice in electricity transmission grid projects in Norway and the UK

Don't Tax Me? Determinants of Individual Attitudes Toward Progressive Taxation

Applying the value of equality unequally: Effects of value instantiations that vary in typicality.

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