Non-bossy social classification

作者:Dimitrov Dinko*; Puppe Clemens
来源:Mathematical Social Sciences, 2011, 62(3): 162-165.
DOI:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2011.07.004

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2011-11