Agrarian Parties

Agrarian parties are political parties chiefly representing the interests of peasants or, more broadly, the rural sector of society. The extent to which they are important, or [blank] they even exist, depends mainly on 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. a country might possess a sizeable rural population, but have an economic system in which the interests of the voters were predominantly related to their incomes, not [to] their occupations or location; and in such a country the political system would be unlikely to include an [blank] agrarian party.