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Cleavage Structure, Interest Groups, and Interest Intermediation Cleavage Structure, Interest Groups, and Interest Intermediation striving to maintain local powers & privileges (periphery) b. The struggle can end in: (1) secession (Ireland from UK), (2) absorption of periphery & its gradual fading as distinct (Bretton or Occitan in France), (3) local autonomy (some Spanish & Italian.