... Political cleavages State autonomy Urban rural relations Values Institutionalization Postcommunism Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36 (2003) 291 309 The foundations of the state: emerging urban rural clevages in transitions countries Lars Johannsen Department of Political Science, University...

... of assuming that state autonomy the institutional differentiation of for- mal collective decision making from the overall system of inequality (Rueschemeyer et al., 1992, p. 63) has been compromised if state policy favours a powerful group. This assumption turns the issue of state autonomy into a zero...