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The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

By Gary W. Cox

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
9780521019019, 9780511571473, 0521327792, 052101901X, 051157147X, 9780521327794
LCC
JN1120
Open Library ID
OL21499249M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1236110 bytes)
Pages
201\201
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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