In A Theory of Justice, Rawls, in a discussion about how wealth should be distributed in a society, introduces a threefold conceptual distinction regarding procedures:Perfect procedural justice occurs when the following of a procedure guarantees a just outcome and there is an independent standard for what constitutes a just outcome. A procedure is therefore called perfect if it leads to perfect procedural justice. Rawls gives the example of a cake being cut up and distributed by the person wh...
