A HELYI TÖRÉSVONALAK
LOCAL CLEAVAGES

Summary/Abstract: The hypothesis of this essay is that there are confl icts at local level, which permanently divide the local society; are represented in local politics and produce permanent cleavages. The concept of cleavage is not based on the classical idea of Stein Rokkan, in which the socio-demographic attachment of cleavages is of basic importance, but on the concept of representatives of “new politics”, in which cleavages are not attached to the cluster belongings of civilans. In this essay the concept of local cleavage claims that there are such permanent local confl icts which permanently divide a local society, and are represented in the sphere of politics, and have the power of group-forming. In the essay I describe four potential cleavages: territorial, personal, ethnic, and industrial confl icts are presented by the examination of concrete examples.

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