Social Polarization

Satya Chakravarty

Chapter Chapter 5 in Inequality, Polarization and Conflict, 2015, pp 77-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Social polarization refers to the widening of gap between specific subgroups of people in terms of their social circumstances and opportunities. The nature of relationships between high ethnic diversity and issues like social integration, public good provision, corruption, and growth has been explained in many significant contributions to the literature. This chapter studies social polarization using a rigorous axiomatic structure. Alternative indices, their analytical properties, and a social polarization ordering involving the population concentration curve are examined in details.

Keywords: Axioms; The Reynal-Querol index; Generalization; Characterizations; Alienation–identification approach; Population concentration curve; Ordering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2166-1_5

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