2 papers
econ.GN2025
Public Ideological Polarization
Alistair Pattison
This paper provides a novel summary measure of ideological polarization in the American public based on the joint distribution of survey responses. Intuitively, polarization is max…
cs.DS2025
Maximizing the Margin between Desirable and Undesirable Elements in a Covering Problem
Sophie Boileau, Andrew Hong, David Liben-Nowell +3
In many covering settings, it is natural to consider the presence both of elements that we seek to include and of elements that we seek to avoid. This paper introduces a novel comb…