Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The Humours of an Election', Wikimedia Commons, 1755. Résumé … and impolite, divisive, abusive and highly unsociable behaviour. As moments of intense social interaction between parties, candidates and electors, elections could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. …
Corruption | Elections | Impoliteness | Politeness | Politics | Print culture | Violence
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