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The Great Reform Bill in the Boroughs
John A. Phillips
其他書名
English Electoral Behaviour, 1818-1841
出版Clarendon Press, 1992
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)History / WorldPolitical Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
ISBN01982029629780198202967
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=K4MNAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This is a study of popular political behavior both before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832. Historians are divided over the impact of the Act, some heralding it as the dawn of a new age while others have dismissed it as an irrelevance. Phillips's new analysis, firmly grounded on detailed research in a number of provincial boroughs, explores the nature of parliamentary representation in the pre-Reform era and assesses the effects of the 1832 Act. He shows that the unreformed electoral system permitted extensive popular political participation; nevertheless the Reform Act politicized the electorate to a degree not possible or even imaginable before. His book establishes the role of Reform as the catalyst which shaped a new pattern of politics and launched the struggle for parliamentary democracy in Britain.