ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between external and internal political incorporation, particularly as manifested in the relationship between mass military mobilization and mass political participation. External political incorporation is a relationship negotiated between the political elites of different countries, defining the terms on which each country will participate in the interstate system. Internal political incorporation is a relationship negotiated between elites and masses within each country, defining the terms on which particular categories of the population will relate to state power. On the one hand, the chapter advances some general propositions about the relationship between these external and internal processes. On the other hand, it explores how this relationship has worked out in one locality under successive, historically different interstate systems.
