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faction  

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  • A subset of individuals within a larger political organization who share a common objective and band together in efforts to achieve it. In the United States, there are informal issue-oriented factions within the Republican and Democratic political parties. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Faction]

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