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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      11 June 1987
      ISBN:
      9780511571473
      9780521019019
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571473
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.317kg, 204 Pages
      • Series:
      Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, British Government, Politics and Policy, History, Political Economy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Economic History
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    Series:
    Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, British Government, Politics and Policy, History, Political Economy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Economic History
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    The Efficient Secret is an analysis of the institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England, concentrating on the years between the first and third Reform Acts. Professor Gary W. Cox employs a rational choice model to analyze the problems of voter choice and to examine the emergence of party loyalty in the electorate, the development of cabinet government, and their legislative consequences. The introductory chapters provide the historical setting for this study and briefly survey nineteenth-century political and economic events. Professor Cox then focuses on the increases in party voting in Parliament and in the electorate. To support his argument concerning these parallel developments, he uses statistical evidence drawn from poll books and newspapers.

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