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THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND AND THE PROBLEM OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM MODERNIZATION IN THE “LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY”

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The article examines the interrelation between the problem of the British electoral system modernization and the Glorious Revolution outcomes represented in the new social arrangement. The authors identify the changes in the attitude of the English party and political elite to the system of representation and analyse the formation of conditions for the electoral reform. The paper focuses on the following issue: what factors promoted the erosion of the electoral system established after the Glorious Revolution, thus making the reform of 1832 inevitable.

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Author information

Leonid Vladimirovich Sidorenko

Saint Petersburg University

Nina Eduardovna Adamova

Saint Petersburg University

Yuliya Igorevna Kuznetsova

Saint Petersburg University

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Publication history

  • Received: October 30, 2018.
  • Published: January 10, 2019.

Keywords

  • Славная революция
  • Великая реформа 1832 г
  • концепция фактического представительства
  • аристократический принцип
  • виги
  • тори
  • радикалы
  • представительство
  • The Glorious Revolution
  • The Great Reform of 1832
  • conception of factual representation
  • aristocratic principle
  • Whigs
  • Tories
  • radicals
  • representation

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