TY - BOOK ID - 85467232 TI - Electoral reform at work : local politics and national parties, 1832-1841 PY - 2002 SN - 1280545674 9786610545674 1846150698 0861932617 0585490910 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - Elections KW - Local elections KW - County elections KW - Elections, County KW - Elections, Local KW - Elections, Municipal KW - Municipal elections KW - Election law KW - Electoral politics KW - Franchise KW - Polls KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical KW - Plebiscite KW - Political campaigns KW - Representative government and representation KW - Parties, Political KW - Party systems, Political KW - Political party systems KW - Divided government KW - Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) KW - Political conventions KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Conservative Party. KW - Electoral Analysis. KW - Reform Act of 1832. KW - Victorian Democracy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467232 AB - 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 far closer to a "modern" type of representative system than has previously been supposed. Drawing on hitherto neglected local archives and the records of election solicitors, Dr Salmon demonstrates how the Reform Act's practical details, far from being mere "small print", had a profound impact on borough and county politics. Combining computer-assisted electoral analysis with traditional methods, he traces the emergence of new types of voter partisanship and party organisation after 1832, and exposes key differences between the parties which resulted in a remarkable national recovery by the Conservative party. In passing he provides important new perspectives on issues such as MPs' relations with their constituents, the expense and culture of popular politics after 1832, the electoral impact of railway development, and the role of 'deference voting' in the counties. Dr PHILIP SALMON is Editor of the 1832-1945 House of Commons project at the History of Parliament. ER -