The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England

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Cambridge University Press, 2005 M09 8 - 204 páginas
The Efficient Secret is an analysis of the institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England, concentrating on the years between the first and third Reform Acts. Professor Gary W. Cox employs a rational choice model to analyze the problems of voter choice and to examine the emergence of party loyalty in the electorate, the development of cabinet government, and their legislative consequences. The introductory chapters provide the historical setting for this study and briefly survey nineteenth-century political and economic events. Professor Cox then focuses on the increases in party voting in Parliament and in the electorate. To support his argument concerning these parallel developments, he uses statistical evidence drawn from poll books and newspapers.

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Introduction and outline 39
3
The historical setting
9
The measurement and theory of party cohesion
21
The Peelites and the disruption of the party system
32
The origin of the efficient secret
45
The electoral connection and ministerial ambition
68
threats of resignation
80
The development of a partyoriented electorate
91
The causes of a partyoriented electorate
113
The legislative consequences of a partyoriented electorate
137
The influence of constituents in Victorian England
148
The history of party voting
169
References
177
Author index
183
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