Measuring polarization in preferences

B. Can; A.I. Ozkes; A.J.A. Storcken

doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.09.006

Measuring polarization in preferences

B. Can^*, A.I. Ozkes, A.J.A. Storcken

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	76-79
Number of pages	4
Journal	Mathematical Social Sciences
Volume	78
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.09.006
Publication status	Published - Nov 2015

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