Time and Politics
Subtitle: Parliament and the Culture of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the British World
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780198737544
Subjects: Great britain, parliament; Representative government and representation; Legitimacy of governments; Great britain, history, 19th century; Great britain, politics and government, 1837-1901
Description: Centered on the 19th-century desire to modernize and make procedural rules more efficient, demonstrates how the evolution was structured by transformations within the wider culture of time. Shows how the new understanding of parliamentary effectiveness was exported to the colonies, using case studies from New South Wales and Canada.