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The Representative of the People? - Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts (Paperback, Revised)
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The Representative of the People? - Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts (Paperback, Revised)
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Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first
time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats
in a parliament which was growing increasingly important. Dr Hirst
examines politics from the point of view of the ordinary man before
the Civil War. He asks what an election and being represented
meant: what kind of person voted; how did he vote and why; and what
might he gain by it. England was not yet shaped in the oligarchic
mould that characterised it in the 18th century, and a striking
feature of this period was the extent to which parliamentary
politics was open to a large social group. Inflation and peasant
survival on the land, and resistance to oligarchy in the boroughs
(supported by the parliamentary gentry seeking popular allies for
their own political battles), produced a broad rural and urban
electorate. The need for votes also ensured that members were
relatively responsive to, and representative of, pressures from
below. In arriving at this verdict, Dr Hirst challenges the notion
that politics in this period displayed a strong sense of direction.
At all levels, whether in the means of control employed by the
magnates, in electoral procedure, or in voting behaviour,
uncertainty was manifest, for contests were unprecedented.
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