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Social Cleavages in Political Systems by maggie20041027 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1. Party systems are shaped by social cleavages in a country, such as class, religious, ethnic, or regional divisions. 2. Attributes like language, religion, or region can map onto identity categories that become the basis for political divisions. 3. Countries with correlated attributes tend to have reinforcing cleavages, while those with uncorrelated attributes have cross-cutting cleavages. This determines whether few or many identity categories are likely to form.
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