Party, State and Society
Subtitle: Electoral Behaviour in Britain Since 1820
Contributors: Jon Lawrence (Editor); Miles Taylor (Editor)
Publisher: Scolar Press
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781859280461
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; Elections & referenda; Political science & theory; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics - Current Events; Practical Politics; Politics / Current Events; Voting; Politics/International Relations; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Politics and government; Political Process - Elections; Elections; Great Britain; History
Description: This collection of essays by a group of young political historians presents a fresh approach to the study of electoral behaviour and political parties in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. The volume challenges the common view that political parties have been the passive beneficiaries of social and constitutional change and examines the contested ways in which parties and voters have interacted since 1820.

Each chapter is an important contribution in its own right, but taken together they offer an original survey of the workings of the electorate and the party system in Britain since the 1820s. This book will be of interest to undergraduates and specialists, historians and political scientists alike.