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Silva (2012): the old fomr of incorporation is gone, and movements/the popular sector are clamoring for greater incorporation, or reincorporation.

What does incorporation look like?  in Colliers (1991) it tends to start from elites, can be done either through party membership or electoral mobilization.  However, with the Colliers incorporation was due to the decline of the oligarchy.  One could suggest that the neoliberal turn is a similar decline in an oligarchy, but that oligarchy would include organized labor.  But even then, it's less that labor was part of the oligarchy and more than the elites could no longer use the old methods of incorporating labor, and by extension the popular classes.

Is there a need to incorporate the popular classes anymore?  Or does the state simply become something more like a whack-a-mole game.  Always shifting, not programmatic, but also not overwhelming?

What does incororation look like to people on the ground?
Do people feel "politically incorporated" in their everyday lives? What would this even mean?

Popular sectors face the demands of the everyday, and sometimes those demands are great enough that they cannot make do on their own.  The literature has a lot of reasons why a group would create a movement (relative deprivation, grievances, etc etc).  But ostensibly they interact with the government in hopes of improving their outcomes in society.  How do we understand the crusaders versus the coopted?

To what extent is a labor union or popular movement the result of leadership cultivation, and to what extent is it groundswell support?  Organic versus created?