Agrarian Parties

Agrarian parties are political parties chiefly representing the interests of peasants or, more broadly, the rural sector of society. The extent to [blank] they are important, or [blank] they even exist, depends mainly [blank] two factors.One, obviously, is the size of an identifiable peasantry, or the size of the rural relative [blank] the urban population. The other is a matter of social integration: [blank] agrarian parties to be important, the representation of countryside or peasantry must not be integrated [blank] the other major sections of society. [blank] a country might possess a sizeable rural population, but have an economic system in which the interests of the voters were predominantly related [blank] their incomes, not to their occupations or location; and in such a country the political system would be unlikely to include an important agrarian party.