‘A distant and whiggish country’: the Conservative party and Scottish elections, 1832–47* | Zendy

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‘A distant and whiggish country’: the Conservative party and Scottish elections, 1832–47*

Author(s) -

Gary D. Hutchison

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

historical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.203

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1468-2281

pISSN - 0950-3471

DOI - 10.1093/hisres/htaa010

Subject(s) - newspaper , memoir , politics , character (mathematics) , political science , political economy , public administration , law , sociology , geometry , mathematics

This article examines the role of the Scottish Conservative party in shaping the underlying culture of Scottish politics in the 1830s and 1840s, utilizing numerous collections of private papers, newspapers, memoirs and legal texts. It focuses on the party’s experiences of electioneering rituals, and its innovative electoral registration activities. It then examines the effects of its creation of illegitimate ‘fictitious’ votes, and of its diverse methods for influencing electors. In doing so, it puts ‘party’ at the heart of a notably distinctive and fast-evolving Scottish political culture, and challenges assumptions that this culture was overwhelmingly whiggish in character and inspiration.

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