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Collective Identities

Many cleavages are coinciding and cause citizens to vote for a specific party. Boundaries exist among different ethnicities and political social classes. All of these coinciding cleavages together cause an impact in politics such as in elections and policy making. Some cleavages block the people from being independent of the benefits givn by the government. The fact that similar religion is practiced and the people speak a common language, national identity is strong. Attitudes and Beliefs Political Socialization Political Participation
 * Social Cleavages
 * tention between landowners and landless people
 * divisions between very poor(support PRI), large middle class, and wealthy(Support PAN)
 * Ethnic Cleavages
 * cultural identites, very explosive and cause war
 * Mestizos: spanish/ mexican, wealthy
 * Amerindians: indigenous people, rural, poor
 * indigenuos languages, spanish language causes issues in cooperation
 * Religious Cleavavges
 * coincides with ethnicity
 * Christian, catholic and indigenous religion
 * Regional Cleavages
 * Urban vs. Rural
 * rural supports PRI (dependent/ poor)
 * urban less inclined to support PRI (Middle class)
 * North vs. South
 * North:wealthy, support PAN, does not support westernization, market based economy, Neoliberalism
 * South: poor, support PRI, less economically and US influenced, believe central government is oppressive
 * competition for government resources
 * linked to economic development
 * political valuues match geographical regions
 * Coinciding Cleavages
 * religion and ethnicity
 * regional and social (link to party choice)
 * regional and ethnicity
 * Cross-Cutting Clevages
 * little to none of these, many cleavages align with others
 * begining to create more cross-cutting since the fall of the PRI
 * believe their government is legitiimate, constitution of 1910-1911
 * the citizens are involved more in government since the fall of the PRI, people are involved in elections
 * believe that the government is capeable of ruling
 * participate in the patron-client system (camarillas)
 * the catholic church used to be a connection before separation if church and state
 * elections
 * under PRI: media censored to protect against enemies of the state
 * media becoming more open and citizens are able to acess media freely
 * interest groups for the people now emerging
 * under PRI: revolution, protest
 * participate in elections more than durring PRI time

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