The upshot of this may be an unprecedented economic polarization in countries where wealthy citizens already have a strong influence on government.

In cities like Chicago extensive magnet-school programs have contributed to racial and economic polarization.

It was this process of economic polarization that fuelled the urban disturbances of the 1980s.

"There has been a dilution of these dollars as the economic polarization has taken place."

A good description of polarization in Great Britain is one of the first uses the term, economic polarization.

More recently economic polarization has been connected to both automation and the export of jobs to low wage countries.

But I see few signs that our great country will reverse course away from the extreme economic polarization that we've been moving toward since the late 1960s.

And history says that we'll see a return to bipartisanship only if and when that economic polarization is reversed.

"An economic polarization is occurring here," Mr. Collins said.

The country's great economic polarization has stimulated criminal activity in the lower socioeconomic strata, which include the majority of the country's population.