Distributive justice in a political context of distrust

The major political quarrels in Guyana are reflective of a fundamental structural distributive difficulty: our society, founded as it is in an entrenched racial division that frustrates regime change, does not and will not allow any single political party to be perceived as fairly distributing the results of our collective national endeavours.

In every society there are various ideas, institutions, policies, etc that determine how the national wealth should be distributed, and there is usually much disagreement about and within these arrangements. However, in societies such as ours there is another quite pernicious layer of disputes that require special arrangements if they are not to be deleterious to the national development effort. These have to do with who does the actual distribution. This would be