Empirical public opinion research on distributive justice often does not acknowledge that individuals’ social justice preferences may strongly depend on the particular type of distribution at stake and therefore does not take into account the multiplicity of justice principles that people may simultaneously apply in their distributive judgements. As a result, to contribute to the understanding of differentiated justice preferences, we analyse citizens’ preferences for the principles of equality, equity and need in the three welfare domains of health care, pensions and unemployment benefits. In particular, this paper provides insight into the domain specificity of distributive justice preferences, into specific configurations or combinations of justice preferences across domains and into the social and ideological basis of these configurations. On the basis of data from the Belgian National Elections Study of 2014, we conduct a three-step latent class analysis. Results show that the distributive justice principles are preferred to a different extent for various welfare domains and that there is a substantial proportion of respondents that combines different principles of justice across welfare domains. This study also demonstrates that configurations are mainly structured by ideology instead of the social structure.

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差异化分配正义偏好？在三个福利领域中的平等，公平和需求偏好设置

关于分配正义的经验性舆论研究通常并不承认个人的社会正义偏好可能在很大程度上取决于特定的分配类型，因此没有考虑人们可能同时在分配正义中运用的多种正义原则。因此，为了有助于理解差异化的司法偏好，我们在医疗，养老金和失业救济金这三个福利领域中分析了公民对平等，公平和需求原则的偏好。特别是，本文提供了对分配正义偏好的领域特殊性，跨领域正义偏好的特定配置或组合以及这些配置的社会和思想基础的洞见。根据2014年比利时全国大选研究的数据，我们进行了三步潜在类别分析。结果表明，在不同的福利领域中，分配正义原则在不同程度上受到青睐，并且有相当大比例的受访者在整个福利领域中结合了不同的正义原则。这项研究还表明，配置主要由意识形态而非社会结构构成。