[en] We examine the measurement of social polarization with categorical and ordinal data. This is particularly useful in many contexts where cardinal data are not available. The new measures we propose are characterized axiomatically. We partition the society into groups on the basis of salient social characteristics, such as race and ethnicity, and we take into account the extent to which these groups are clustered in certain regions of an attribute’s distribution.
Disciplines :
Economie sociale
Auteur, co-auteur :
D'Ambrosio, Conchita ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Permanyer, Inaki; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Co-auteurs externes :
yes
Langue du document :
Anglais
Titre :
Measuring social polarization with ordinal and categorical data
