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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792259403321

Autore

Lawrence Jon

Titolo

Electing our masters [[electronic resource] ] : the hustings in British politics from Hogarth to Blair / / Jon Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612235061

1-282-23506-0

0-19-156776-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

324.941

Soggetti

Elections - Great Britain - History

Political campaigns - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Politics and government 18th century

Great Britain Politics and government 19th century

Great Britain Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Spirit of the Hustings; 1. John Bull at the Hustings: Electoral Politics from the Ancien Regime to the Second Reform Act; 2. The Fall of the Hustings and the Rise of the Platform; 3. Money, Men, and Mayhem: Electoral Politics before the First World War; 4. War, Women, and the 'Silent Majority'; 5. Towards the New Jerusalem; 6. The Decline of the Platform; 7. The Local Campaign in the Television Age; 8. Broadcasting Politics; 9. The Public Banished?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T

UV; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, highlighting how the television age has altered the interaction of politicians and public and asking what the media must now do to reinvigorate public politics. - ;In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public. Throughout this period, he argues,



British politics has been characterized by bruising public rituals intended to bestow legitimacy on politicians by oblig