American Perceptions of Justice: An East-West CollaborativeStudy

这个项目调查了1500名美国成年人的代表性国家样本，以了解他们对经济、政治和社会问题的正义观念。受访者将报告他们对个人特征和结果之间实际和理想关系的看法。数据将使我们能够第一次全面检验一种关于感觉正义和不正义的因素和后果的正式理论。该调查还将在政府和经济制度与美国相当的国家（英国、德国、荷兰、日本和意大利）和东欧国家（保加利亚、匈牙利、波兰、苏联和南斯拉夫）进行。未来的研究将调查中国。这样就可以比较在不同类型的社会制度中以及在经历快速变革的国家中的正义感受。分析将包括个人在不同的情况下，不同的年龄和文化背景的比较。该项目的结果将是一个基于多国数据的合作专著。

This project surveys a representative national sample of 1500 U.S. adults to get their ideas of justice regarding economic, political, and social issues. Respondents will report their conceptions of both actual and ideal relationships between individuals' characteristics and their outcomes. Data will permit the first comprehensive test of a formal theory of deter- minants and consequences of felt justice and injustice. The survey also will be administered in countries with governments and economic systems comparable to the U.S. (Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, and Italy) and in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, the U.S.S.R., and Yugoslavia). Future research will survey China. This permits comparisons of justice feelings in different types of social systems, and in countries undergoing rapid change. Analyses will include com- parisons of individuals in different circumstances, and of differing ages and cultural backgrounds. The outcome of this project will be a collaborative monograph based on the multi- national data.