%0 Journal Article %T The Republican People¡¯s Party¡¯s Antalya Members¡¯ Perspective on Inner-Party Democracy and Oligarchy %A Caner ERDO£¿AN %J - %D 2018 %X Robert Michels identified in his book ¡°Political Parties¡± written in 1911 that German Social Democrat Party had promised democracy to people at election campaigns but democracy hadn¡¯t been able to enabled inner-party, and he resulted that real democracy is impossible, oligarchy is indispensable in all organizations (especially socialist/social democrat parties) exceptionally with his say ¡°who says organization, says oligarchy¡± in his theory defined as ¡°the Iron Law of Oligarchy¡±. Within this study, a pool was carried out with 1.204 Republican People¡¯s Party¡¯s members at Antalya scale, their opinions has been revealed about inner-party democracy and oligarchy. It is resulted that, according to the members, Michels¡¯s opinion of ¡°exceptionally indispensability of oligarchy and impossibility of real democracy is valid in all organizations¡± is valid in the Republican People¡¯s Party at Antalya scale %K Robert Michels %K Oligar£¿inin Demir Kanunu %K Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi %K Parti £¿£¿i Demokrasi %K Oligar£¿i %U http://dergipark.org.tr/auiibfd/issue/36928/420802