Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain

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