Chapter 00 Comparing Polarization Measures1 by

Fulbright Foundation, and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. We thank Xavi Ramos for his comments and to Michelle Garfinkel for the careful editing of this paper. We are specially grateful to Peter Lambert for his deep and detailed comments on a previous version of the Chapter. Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the notion and measurement of polarization as an indicator of potential conflict. Early empirical studies on civil conflict focussed on the inequality of the personal distribution of income or of landownership.2 More recently, with the shift of emphasis of contemporary literature from class to ethnic conflict, the initial presumptio