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Procedural group identification

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Dinko Dimitrov () (Institute of Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University)
Shao Chin Sung () (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Yongsheng Xu () (Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University)

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In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure starts with the set of all individuals who are defined by everyone in the society as group members, while the starting point of the second procedure is the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the social group. Both procedures expand these initial sets by adding individuals who are considered to be appropriate group members by someone in the corresponding initial set, and continue inductively un- til there is no possibility of expansion any more.

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Paper provided by Bielefeld University, Institute of Mathematical Economics in its series Working Papers with number 383.

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Keywords: consensus; liberalism; procedure; social identity;

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