Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England 1734-1832

ISBN-13: 9780198200567 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 464 str.

Frank O'Gorman

Opis

This is a wide-ranging study of electoral politics in England between 1734 and 1832. O'Gorman analyzes the voters, the control of the electoral system by the upper classes, and the function of an election in the unreformed period. He combines computer analysis with traditional historical methods to reconstruct the social and ideological world of the voters, and argues that an understanding of the electoral dimension is vital to a broader understanding of the Hanoverian regime and its popular acceptance.

Recenzje

'Frank O'Gorman's exhaustively researched and skillfully written monograph unquestionably takes its place as the leading study on the last century of the unreformed English and Welsh (but not Scottish or Irish) electorate. All students of the period should be immensely grateful.' James J. Sack, University of Illinois, American Historical Review, December 1991

Spis treści

Preface; list of tables; The electoral system in Hanoverian England; The structure of electoral politics; The processes of electoral politics; The unreformed electorate; Ideological aspects of electoral behaviour; The party dimension to electoral politics; conclusion; Appendix