Abstract:

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.