Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) · Part 2: Reading

Agrarian parties are political parties chiefly representing the interests of…

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Agrarian parties are political parties chiefly representing the interests of peasants or, more broadly, the rural sector of society. The extent to 1 they are important, or 2 they even exist, depends mainly 3 two factors.One, obviously, is the size of an identifiable peasantry, or the size of the rural relative 4 the urban population. The other is a matter of social integration: 5 agrarian parties to be important, the representation of countryside or peasantry must not be integrated 6 the other major sections of society. 7 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, 8 than their occupations or location; and in such a country the political system would be unlikely to include an important agrarian party.

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Source: Pearson, PTE Academic & UKVI test format, Part 2: Reading, checked 9 October 2026.