The Anatomy of Political and Social Change: Turkish Parties, Parliaments, and Elections

TLDR: A crucial stage in the process of political modernization is the induction of the rural masses into the political system as mentioned in this paper, which is referred to as the Green Uprising phenomenon, and the particular form in which it is manifested depends upon the system and the political groups or forces under whose auspices it occurs.

Abstract: A crucial stage in the process of political modernization is the induction of the rural masses into the political system. Such an induction spells the end of traditional political systems and fundamentally alters the relationship between city and countryside. Samuel P. Huntington refers to this phenomenon as the "Green Uprising." While the Green Uprising may occur in a variety of political systems, the particular form in which it is manifested depends upon the system and the political groups or forces under whose auspices it occurs. When the Green Uprising takes place within a competitive political system, Huntington suggests that it "often takes the form of one segment of the urban elite developing an appeal to or making an alliance with the crucial rural voters and mobilizing them into politics so as to overwhelm at the polls the more narrowly urban-based parties." 1 Huntington cites Turkey as a classic example of this form of the Green Uprising. The "ruralizing election" in Turkey, which brought to power a new regime based on the electoral support of the peasant masses, occurred in 1950. The new "ruralized" regime coincided with a number of changes in Turkish politics. One of these was a shift in the composition of Parliament from persons with military and official backgrounds to persons with commercial and professional careers. Another was a rise in the representation of local or provincial elites as opposed