Gerechtigkeit in der Zeit - Einstellungen zur Nachhaltigkeit und gerechten Verteilungen zwischen den Generationen (4. Welle des `International Social Justice Projekt` (ISJP) für Deutschland)
Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse
The fourth version of the International Social Justice Project (2006) was focused on the topic of justice in time as well as on the replication of the core areas of previous waves. The emphasis on the time dimension refers to the analysis of justice between generations, or intergenerational justice. The demographic change and the consequent aging society means that the principles regulating the exchange of goods and rewards between generations are acquiring increasing relevance, particularly in relation to the sustainability of welfare-based systems such as pensions and old-age care. Besides this socio relevant aspect, the incorporation of the time dimension allows for expansion of the framework of the social justice theory, which up to now principally refers to current situations of distribution. Regarding the replication of previous waves, the ISJP4 adds another cross-sectional point that enables time comparison in a sixteen year time frame after the surveys of 1991, 1996 and 2000. Besides, this last version of the project includes the possibility of international comparison with the simultaneous implementation of the survey by Czech Republic, Hungary, Chile and Israel. The first phase of the project consisted of the design and implementation of the face-toface interview of a random sample (N=3000). The German data was incorporated into the ISJP trend dataset (1991-2006), which allowed the analysis and writing of several reports both on the topic of intergenerational justice as well as on cross-sectional time analysis. The analysis and results are documented in a series of working papers that for this version of the project contains more than 70 contributions. A second phase of the project was aimed at the presentation of the results at international conferences and to the paper’s publication in refereed journals. Analyses in the area of intergenerational justice were centered on the generational differences in attitudes regarding the welfarebased systems, justice of transfers within the family, and the justice of the pension system. The traditional (core) research areas of the ISJP were expanded to topics such as voting behavior, justice and material well-being, and attributions of poverty and wealth. Several meetings with the international cooperation partners were organized in order to foster international comparative research. The project was also involved in university activities through research seminars and has also been the topic of master theses and doctoral dissertations.
