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Suffrage Expansion and Legislative Behavior in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Gary W. Cox  and
James W. Ingram III
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The importance of suffrage expansion to the formation of “modern” political parties—and with them mass representative democracy as we know it today—is widely recognized. Nonetheless, most of what we know about the link between suffrage expansion and democratic politics concerns only the electoral arena. The major comparative studies of party development (Weber 1946; Duverger 1955; LaPalombara and Weiner 1966), for example, have stressed how larger electorates led to more elaborate and centralized extra-parliamentary organization, to “populist” campaigning styles, and to the promotion of socialist parties. This study concerns the legislative effects of extending the suffrage. Although we focus on nineteenth-century Britain, parts of our argument pertain to other cases.

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Politics
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Social Science History , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , Winter 1992 , pp. 539 - 560
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1992 

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