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An increasing number of public policy issues arise in the context of competing claims about whatprocesses constitute fair ways of making allocation decisions and whatpatterns represent fair distributions of resources and benefits. Aslaissez faire capitalism has given way to the managed economy, a growing level of controversy about how the economy is to be both fairly and efficiently managed has developed. Although competing interests have always existed, the intensity of conflict has been heightened by expanded claims of entitlement based on increasing demands for the recognition of certain rights. In short, more and more areas subject to legislative, executive, and judicial discretion are framed in terms of questions about justice. Divergent perceptions of what is fair are both a common occurrence and a threat to the tractability of public policy decisions
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Folger, R. (1984). Emerging Issues in the Social Psychology of Justice. In: Folger, R. (eds) The Sense of Injustice. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2683-0_1
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