ABSTRACT
Studies of political inclusion are not lacking. From Alexis de Tocqueville onward, students of democracy have examined political inclusion. Tocqueville himself argued that:
The gradual progress of equality is something fated. The main features of this progress are the following: it is universal and permanent, it is daily passing beyond human control, and every event and every man helps it along. Is it wise to assume that a movement, which has been so long in train, could be halted by one generation? Does anyone imagine that democracy, which has destroyed the feudal system and vanquished kings, will fall back before the middle class and the rich? Will it stop now, when it has grown so strong and its adversaries so weak.1
