Measuring Polarization in Preferences

Burak Can, Ali Ozkes and Ton Storcken
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Ton Storcken: Department of Quantitative Economics [Maastricht] - Maastricht University [Maastricht]

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Abstract: In this paper, we study the measurement of polarization in collective decision making problems with ordinal preferences over alternatives. We argue that polarization can be measured as an aggregation of antagonisms over pairs of alternatives in the society. We propose a measure of this sort and show that it is the only measure satisfying some normatively appealing conditions.

Date: 2014-06-02
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