Recently in Korea, the commercialization of health services has come to the fore, and the issue of egalitarianism/universal coverage in health is a matter for debate. This study explored the extent of Korean citizen's preference for egalitarian health policies focusing on the provision of health care service, financing and related factors. The data came from the 2011 Korean General Social Surve...

Increasingly, both mothers and fathers are expected to play an equal role in child rearing. Nonetheless, we know little about how childcare arrangements affect couples’ sexual intimacy and relationship quality. Research has focused on the effect of the division of paid labor and housework on couples’ relationships finding that egalitarianism is problematic for sexual intimacy, relationship qual...

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly or prematurely dead individuals. This paper revisits design LTC while adopting two egalitarian criteria—ex ante and ex post egalitarianism—which give priority wor...

changing people social status, particularly upwardly, is often considered an indication of a government success in reaching a fair society, particularly in traditionally rigid structures. this is mainly possible through implementing development plan(s) which is theoretically assumed to result in wiping out traditional rigid structures. in the post-revolutionary iran, the government took upon it...

Relational egalitarianism is a theory of justice according to which people must relate as equals. However, not just any inegalitarian relation unjust, i.e., the fact that parents do equals their children unjust. Whereas an adult treating another paternalistically objectionable from point view relational egalitarianism, parent-child paternalism not. What may explain this difference in judgment? ...

Political conservatism has been characterized by resistance to change and acceptance of inequality, with liberalism characterized by the polar opposite of these values. Political attitudes are heritable and may be influenced by basic personality traits. In previous research, conservatism (vs. liberalism) has been associated positively with Conscientiousness and negatively with Openness-Intellec...

Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene’s celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene ...

Existing research suggests that concerns for fairness may significantly affect the interactions between firms in a distribution channel. We analytically and experimentally evaluate how firms make decisions in a two-stage dyadic channel, in which firms decide on investments in the first stage and then on prices in the second stage. We find that firms’ behavior differs significantly from the pred...