Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… new modes of communication and created an instrumentalised sociability for partisan purposes. As such, elections presented in microcosm both a wider culture, or rather cultures , of sociability and the subversion or manipulation of … where the outcome had to be keenly fought for. 2 . J. H. Plumb, ‘The Growth of the Electorate from 1600 to 1715’, Past & Present, 45 (1969) p. 90-116; Frank O’Gorman, ‘The Electorate Before and After 1832’, Parliamentary History, 12 (1993), … 3 3 . O’Gorman, ‘Campaign Rituals and Ceremonies: The Social Meaning of Elections in England 1780-1860’, Past & Present, 135 (1992), p. 84, 102. Once (and often before) an election had been called, electoral ‘treating’ became a …
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