Frontmatter -- Contents -- Project Participants -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 The International Social Justice Project / Kluegel, James R. / Mason, David S. / Wegener, Bernd -- I JUSTICE IN POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 2 Distributive Justice: Does It Matter What the People Think? / Swift, Adam / Marshall, Gordon / Burgoyne, Carole / Routh, David -- 3 Justice, Socialism, and Participation in the Postcommunist States / Mason, David S. -- 4 Justice Beliefs and Support for the Welfare State in Advanced Capitalism / Kluegel, James R. / Miyano, Masaru -- II MICROJUSTICE -- 5 Comparative Referential Structures, System Legitimacy, and Justice Sentiments: An International Comparison / Alwin, Duane F. / Gornev, Galin / Khakhulina, Ludmila -- 6 Justice Evaluation of Income Distribution in East and West / Arts, Wil / Hermkens, Piet / Wijck, Peter van -- 7 Justice Psychophysics in the Real World: Comparing Income Justice and Income Satisfaction in East and West Germany / Wegener, Bernd / Steinmann, Susanne -- III IDEOLOGY AND JUSTICE -- 8 Accounting for the Rich and the Poor: Existential Justice in Comparative Perspective / Kluegel, James R. / Csepeli, György / Kolosi, Tamás / Örkény, Antal / Neményi, Mária -- 9 Egalitarian vs. Inegalitarian Principles of Distributive Justice / Kluegel, James R. / Mateju, Petr -- 10 Dominant Ideologies and the Variation of Distributive Justice Norms: A Comparison of East and West Germany, and the United States / Wegener, Bernd / Liebig, Stefan -- IV SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND JUSTICE BELIEFS -- 11 Hierarchical and Social Closure Conceptions of Distributive Social Justice: A Comparison of East and West Germany / Wegener, Bernd / Liebig, Stefan -- 12 The Caring But Unjust Women? A Comparative Study of Gender Differences in Perceptions of Social Justice in Four Countries / Davidson, Pamela / Steinmann, Susanne / Wegener, Bernd -- APPENDIX: Methods of the International Social Justice Project / Alwin, Duane / Wegener, Bernd -- References -- Index