Economic, social, and political cleavages fragmented Germany's society.

The book argues that the nature of the conflict depends on existing social and political cleavages and on the level of economic development.

The massive arrival of socialists was caused not only by a linguistic cleavage, but also by a political cleavage.

However this assertion is contested, as it overlooks internal social and political cleavages within the Eritrean Muslim community.

That continuity, he said, placed Malaysia's political cleavage between the secular Umno and the Islamist Pas.

This revisionist picture captures a broader range of political cleavages within the scope of 'class struggle' than orthodox Marxism.

Much attention has been given to the political cleavages in this society in the two weeks since the assassination.

There are clear political and cultural cleavages in both the locales which could be identified in terms of consumption cleavages.

In seventeenth-century England, for instance, there was a religious and political cleavage which distinctly resembled the left-right antagonism of to-day.

The election showed a severe political cleavage in Algerian society.