Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Stefan Traub
• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2014 to 2022
• 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 of FOR 2104. 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
• Subproject of: FOR 2104: Needs-Based Justice and Distribution Procedures