Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties, 1832-1841

by Philip Salmon and Philip Salmon

The Reform Act of 1832 is shown to have politicised the electorate at all levels, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians.

This book charts the political transformation of Britain that resulted from the "Great" Reform Act of 1832. It argues that this extensively debated parliamentary reform, aided by the workings of the New Poor Law (1834) and Municipal Corporations Act (1835), moved the nation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843836424
• ISBN13: 9781843836421
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"