PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUARTERLY SYMPOSIUM “Revisiting the Theory of Justice”
Symposium Editors: Tia Gaynor Rouse, Marist College and Hindy Lauer Schachter, New Jersey Institute of Technology
John Rawls’ (1971) Theory of Justice provided underlying principles that continue to serve as a guide to ensure a fundamental understanding of equality and fairness within the basic structure of society. This theory is based on two primary principles:
• Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with similar liberty for others, and • Social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.