Arbeitspapier

Non-bossy social classification

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: KIT Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 23

Classification
Wirtschaft
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Subject
social aggregation
group identity
liberalism, non-bossiness

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dimitrov, Dinko
Puppe, Clemens
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
(where)
Karlsruhe
(when)
2011

DOI
doi:10.5445/IR/1000022997
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-229971
Last update
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Dimitrov, Dinko
  • Puppe, Clemens
  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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