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Distributive Justice and Social Welfare Institutions

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Social Justice in Human Relations

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This chapter* describes how the basic sense of distributive justice leads to predictions concerning the emergence and maintenance of social welfare institutions. To accomplish this purpose, it is necessary to adopt as working tools, first, a definition of social welfare institutions, and, second, a theory of the distributive-justice force. Distilling from the literature on institutions, we define an institution as a patterned individual and/or social behavior, a prevailing way of doing something, with variation possible across space and time. Narrowing the focus, we take a social welfare institution to be an institution that promotes the social welfare of the population. For the working description of the distributive-justice force, from which we will derive implications for the emergence and maintenance of social welfare institutions, we use the theory proposed by Jasso (1980).

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Jasso, G. (1991). Distributive Justice and Social Welfare Institutions. In: Steensma, H., Vermunt, R. (eds) Social Justice in Human Relations. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2629-6_9

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