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

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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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Book Title: The Organization of Opinion
Book Subtitle: Open Voting in England, 1832-68
Authors: Jeremy C. Mitchell
Series Title: Studies in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21965-6Published: 31 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30513-1Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59499-9Published: 31 October 2008
Series ISSN: 2946-2053
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 216
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, European History, Modern History, Social History, Electoral Politics

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