factions

n.

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )；

Taiwan Factions: Guanxi, Patronage, and the State in Local Politics
Factions matter: personal networks and the distribution of bank loans in China
Factions and enclaves: small towns and socially unsustainable tourism development.
Factions and Coalitions in One-Party Japan: An Interpretation Based on the Theory of Games
Friends, Followers, and Factions: A Reader in Political Clientelism
The Electoral Fortunes of Legislative Factions in Japan
Factions and the Politics of Guanxi: Paradoxes in Chinese Administrative and Political Behaviour
Electoral Reform and the Fate of Factions: The Case of Japan's LDP
Electoral Reform and the Fate of Factions: The Case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
Reflections on the Colonial State, in South Africa and Elsewhere: Factions, Fragments, Facts and Fictions