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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Permanyer, Iñaki author Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica author Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica author 2008 Polarization indices presented up to now have only focused their attention on the distribution of income/wealth. However, in many circumstances income is not the only relevant dimension that might be the cause of social conflict, so it is very important to have a social polarization index able to cope with alternative dimensions. In this paper we present an axiomatic characterization of one of such indices: it has been obtained as an extension of the (income) polarization measure introduced in Duclos, Esteban and Ray (2004) to a wider domain. It turns out that the axiomatic structure introduced in that paper alone is not appropriate to obtain a fully satisfactory characterization of our measure, so additional axioms are proposed. As a byproduct, we present an alternative axiomatization of the aforementioned income polarization measure. Polarització (Ciències socials) The Measurement of social polarization in a multi-group context