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The group value model by Lind and Tyler has had a major impact on procedural justice research. After critically examining the model, the author proposes that its underlying idea be reformulated at a more general level. The theory of autopoietic systems provides the background for an attempt to depict procedural justice as a mode for the self-description of social systems, a concept that the author relates to procedural structures that have been empirically shown to exist. Two cases from the field of genetic engineering are cited in this context.
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Bora, A. Procedural justice as a contested concept: Sociological remarks on the group value model. Soc Just Res 8, 175–195 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02334690
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