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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation - Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation - Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Ideas in Context
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The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably
familiar today, but how did the Victorian era - the epoch when the
modern democratic state was made - understand democracy,
parliamentary representation, and diversity? In the famous
nineteenth-century debates about representation and parliamentary
reform, two interlocked ideals were of the greatest importance:
descriptive representation, that the House of Commons 'mirror' the
diversity that marked society, and deliberation within the
legislative assembly. These ideals presented a major obstacle to
the acceptance of a democratic suffrage, which it was widely feared
would produce an unrepresentative and un-deliberative House of
Commons. Here, Gregory Conti examines how the Victorians conceived
the representative and deliberative functions of the House of
Commons and what it meant for parliament to be the 'mirror of the
nation'. Combining historical analysis and political theory, he
analyses the fascinating nineteenth-century debates among
contending schools of thought over the norms and institutions of
deliberative representative government, and explores the
consequences of recovering this debate.
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