Abstract
Much recent research has concluded that the persistence of responsive and nontyrannical democracies depends upon the maintenance of special political influentials or elites. It is argued that maintaining these groups is essential because they have been socialized, through their participation in the political process, to support democratic principles such as minority rights even when the majority of the polity may not. In fact, many have suggested that this resocialization process is of such magnitude and importance that the end result is a distinctively political stratification system, not co-
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