The representative of the people? : Voters and voting in England under the early Stuarts
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The representative of the people? : Voters and voting in England under the early Stuarts
Cambridge University Press, 1975
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A revision of the author's thesis, Cambridge
Bibliography: p. 283-298
Includes index
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内容説明
Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats in a parliament which was growing increasingly important. Dr Hirst examines politics from the point of view of the ordinary man before the Civil War. He asks what an election and being represented meant: what kind of person voted; how did he vote and why; and what might he gain by it. England was not yet shaped in the oligarchic mould that characterised it in the 18th century, and a striking feature of this period was the extent to which parliamentary politics was open to a large social group. Inflation and peasant survival on the land, and resistance to oligarchy in the boroughs (supported by the parliamentary gentry seeking popular allies for their own political battles), produced a broad rural and urban electorate. The need for votes also ensured that members were relatively responsive to, and representative of, pressures from below. In arriving at this verdict, Dr Hirst challenges the notion that politics in this period displayed a strong sense of direction. At all levels, whether in the means of control employed by the magnates, in electoral procedure, or in voting behaviour, uncertainty was manifest, for contests were unprecedented.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and notes
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Electorate: 2. The county electorate
- 3. The borough franchise disputes
- 4. The support of the House of Commons
- 5. The urban voters
- Part II. Elections: 6. Control and independence in voting
- 7. The electorate and politics
- Part III. After the Election: 8. Local benefits and taxes
- 9. Accountability and national politics
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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