Author ORCID Identifier
David Igliozzi: 000-0001-7431-7770
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2024
Publication Title
European Journal of Social Psychology
Abstract
Utilizing experimental methods across a pilot and two studies, we explore and contrastt he relationship between system-justifying attitudes and fairness perceptions of and support for redistributive policies based on theoretical accounts of distributive justice, highlighting three allocation strategies: equality, equity and need. We began our investigation with a test across multiple policy domains (e.g., health care, education, employment) to examine broad associations between system justification and policy support. Then, we chose one specific domain – education – to narrow our focus on and designed two experimental studies to test more complex models of the interaction between system justification and the type of distributive justice on support and fairness perceptions. Results indicate that as system-justifying attitudes increase, so does the level of support and perception of fairness of policies based on equality or equity. Conversely, there is no relationship between system justification and support or fairness when considering a need-based policy in the education domain.
Keywords
distributive justice, education, fairness perceptions, policy support, system justification
Volume
54
Issue
3
First Page
688
Last Page
700
DOI
10.1002/ejsp.3040
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Rights
© 2024 The Authors. European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Recommended Citation
Igliozzi, David; Granot, Yael; and Ottati, Victor, "A Fair Share: Effects of Disparity, Allocation Strategy, and System Justification on Perceptions of Policy Support in the Education Domain" (2024). Psychology: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/psy_facpubs/226
Comments
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