Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… 1754-90 survey, ‘The Constituencies’. Electioneering also took place in printed tracts and periodicals. From the 1640s onwards a genre of electoral advice literature emerged that became an important part of eighteenth- century political … tactics of low churchmen were ‘a piece of incivility’ and that divisions had become ‘like the raising of a civil war amongst us at every election’. 10 ‘Black-lists’ of how MPs had voted were circulated with hostile glosses and much … led to a degradation of culture: ‘riots, tumults, mutual abuses, odious nick-names, personal affronts are kept alive and warm from three year to three year’, complained Daniel Defoe. 14 12 . A Letter to a Friend upon Occasion of the House of …
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