Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain
(Part of the Ideas in Context Series)
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The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorian era - the epoch when the modern democratic state was made - understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity? In the famous 19th-century debates about representation and parliamentary reform, two interlocked ideals were of the greatest importance: descriptive representation, that the House of Commons "mirror" the diversity that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1108428738
ISBN13:9781108428736
Release Date:June 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.5" x 9.3"
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