ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerned with structural antecedents of people's justice evaluation of resource distribution, motivational antecedents, cognitive and emotional antecedents as well as the attitudinal and behavioral consequences of people's justice evaluations. It focuses on mode of production as a factor affecting distributive justice judgments. Thus, the manner in which social resources are made is proposed to have an impact on distributive justice judgments and behavior. The book conceives of three ways in which justice and solidarity are related to each other: solidarity as a pre-condition of justice, solidarity and justice as mutually reinforcing processes and justice as a pre-condition of solidarity. A test of the relationships between justice and solidarity is conducted via an analysis of German parliamentary debates and survey data. The book also focuses on how the content of negotiator communications affects distributive and procedural justice judgments.
