The Organization of Opinion: Open Voting in England, 1832-68

by J. Mitchell

Overview

A new account of voting between the First and Second Reform Bills, outlining a new interpretation of electoral behaviour, and emphasizing the links between individual electors and their social context. It also explores the consequences of these ideas for local political organization, suffragism, and the development of the party system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230219656
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/31/2008
Series:	Studies in Modern History
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JEREMY C. MITCHELL is a Lecturer in Government at the Open University. His publications include Reforming the Lords (with Anne Davies), and (co-edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies, and Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Explaining Open Voting in England, 1832-1868 Elections and Party Organization in Victorian England Some Electoral Consequences of the Great Reform Bill Organizing the Vote in Lancaster Electoral Change in Bedford 1832–68 The Voter and the Electoral Community After the Second Reform Bill The Organization of Opinion Appendix i: Poll Books and Nominal Record Linkage Appendix ii: Votes and Ballots Appendix iii: Measuring Electoral Change Notes References Index