附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-294) and index.
Voter registration and the reformed electorate -- Conservative and Liberal electoral organisation -- The election after 1832: tradition and transformation -- Electoral behaviour in the counties: influence and independence -- County politics and registration: case studies -- No representation without taxation: rates and votes -- The electoral politics of municipal reform -- The re-distribution of English and Welsh seats in 1832 -- Voting qualifications after 1832 -- Registration and polling returns by borough and county, 1832-1839 -- The assimilation of English boroughs to the New Poor Law.
摘要:The Reform Act of 1832 set in motion the political transformation of Britain. Drawing on hitherto neglected local archives, Dr Salmon demonstrates how the practical details of this extensively debated Parliamentary reform, aided by the workings of the New Poor Law (1834) and Municipal Corporations Act (1835), had a profound impact on borough and county politics, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians.
