Date of This Version
December 2009
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-bossiness condition makes the social aggregator dependent only on those cells of the individual partitions the society members classify themselves in. This information is used to construct for each profile of views an opinion graph. By means of natural sovereignty and liberalism requirements, we characterize the non-bossy aggregators generating partitions in which the social classes are refinements of the connected components in the opinion graph.
Recommended Citation
Dimitrov, Dinko and Puppe, Clemens, "Non-bossy Social Classifcation" (December 01, 2009). Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers. Paper 362.
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