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 1 they even exist, depends mainly 2 two factors.

One, obviously, is the size of an identifiable peasantry, or the size of the rural relative 3 the urban population. The other is a matter of social integration: 4 agrarian parties to be important, the representation of countryside or peasantry must not be integrated 5 the other major sections of society. 6 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 important agrarian party.