Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Corruption Elections Impoliteness Politeness Politics Print culture Violence Parliamentary elections were the sites of … as a form of bribery (an act of 1696 sought to clamp down on ‘treating’ in a vain attempt to rid elections of corruption), and they were hostile to the subsidies increasingly offered by the Treasury for government-favoured … Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). Chalus, Elaine, ‘Kisses for Votes: The Kiss and Corruption in Eighteenth-century English Elections’, in Karen Harvey (ed.), The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester …
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