FOR 2104:
Needs-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures
Subject Area
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Humanities
Term
from 2014 to 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 240285356
DFG research group "Need-based Justice and Distribution Procedures" aims at contributing to a positive and an informed normative theory of need-based justice which is based on experimental evidence. The need principle lies at the heart of the research concept. According to the need principle the distribution of goods and services should be guided by the satisfaction of acknowledged needs. The first funding period showed the need principle to represent a central principle of justice in decision-making about distribution—though it may be applied in different forms. Exclusion and restriction of the scope of the need principle are possible as well as different kinds of differentiation. The second funding period therefore focusses on different conceptions of need-based justice that arise from or incorporate heterogeneity—i.e., differing group memberships that may result from ascribed or acquired characteristics. The research group will analyze the need principle for possible scope restrictions; detect the extent of differentiation; and test whether the need principle still creates consistent, legitimate, stable and sustainable distribution outcomes even in the presence of pronounced heterogeneity.
DFG Programme
Research Units
International Connection
Austria, Israel, Switzerland
Projects
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Conceptions of Need-based Justice in Administrative Behavior
(Applicant
Schnapp, Kai-Uwe
)
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Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Traub, Stefan
)
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Distributive Preferences and Need-Based Justice in Networks
(Applicant
Kittel, Bernhard
)
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Framing in need determination
(Applicant
Diederich, Adele
)
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Justice, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Needs
(Applicant
Nicklisch, Andreas
)
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Measures of Needs-based Justice, Expertise and Coherence
(Applicant
Siebel, Mark
)
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Need-based Redistribution as a Social Contract
(Applicant
Traub, Stefan
)
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Needs-based Justice, Group Membership and Expertise
(Applicant
Tepe, Markus
)
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Needs within and across borders. Experimental investigations on the stability of transnational need-based distribution procedures
(Applicants
Nullmeier, Frank
;
Pritzlaff-Scheele, Tanja
)