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The Organization of Opinion

Open Voting in England, 1832-68

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Jeremy C. Mitchell

    1. The Open University, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction — Explaining Open Voting in England 1832–68

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 1-23

  3. Elections and Party Organization in Victorian England

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 24-36

  4. Some Electoral Consequences of the Great Reform Bill

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 37-51

  5. Organizing the Vote in Lancaster

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 52-79

  6. Electoral Change in Bedford 1832–68

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 80-114

  7. The Voter and the Electoral Community

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 115-141

  8. After the Second Reform Bill

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 142-160

  9. The Organization of Opinion

    • Jeremy C. Mitchell
    Pages 161-166

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 167-216
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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.

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  • The Open University, UK

    Jeremy C. Mitchell

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.

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