Non-bossy social classification

Dinko Dimitrov and Clemens Puppe ()

No 23, Working Paper Series in Economics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management

Abstract: We consider the problem of how societies should be partitioned into classes if individuals express their views about who should be put with whom in the same class. A non-bossy social aggregator depends only on those cells of the individual partitions the society members classify themselves in. This fact allows us to concentrate on a corresponding 'opinion graph' for each profile of views. By means of natural sovereignty, liberalism, and equal treatment requirements, we characterize the non-bossy aggregators generating partitions in which the social classes are refinements of the weakly connected components of the opinion graph.

Keywords: social aggregation; group identity; liberalism; non-bossiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: Non-bossy social classification (2011)
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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000022997

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