по ту или иную сторону(чего-либо; пример: These ideas may fall on either side of some of the biggest controversies in the history of economic thought...)
согласованные позиции групп интересов(пример: As they point out, "it makes very little difference what the general public thinks" once interest-group alignments and the preferences of affluent Americans are taken into account.)
состояние общества(пример: How we evaluate different social states and judge whether they advance our "interests" depends crucially on how we define ourselves.)