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"That in the opinion of this House" : The parliamentary culture of debate in the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies

2012

Cambridge Union Societypoliittiset järjestötdebateparlamentarismirhetoricparliamentary cultureparlamentitCambridgepoliittinen kulttuuridebattiyhdistyksetretoriikkaUnioniyhdistyksetHouse of CommonsväittelyOxford Union Societynineteenth centuryOxfordIso-Britanniakansalaistoiminta1800-luku
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Parliamentary Reform at Westminster

2015

As a concept, reform has been associated with British parliamentary politics for a very long time. In the nineteenth century, it became a political idea connected with the creation of new instituti...

PoliticsdebateSociology and Political SciencePolitical sciencePolitical economyparliamentary cultureParliamentary republicta517Parliamentary procedureta615Parliaments, Estates and Representation
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The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c.1830–72: an extension of the nineteenth-century parliamentary culture o…

2014

SUMMARYIn this article, debating societies are considered an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds' for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies of parliamentary history, even though it is one of the fundamental political features in the Westminster system. Nineteenth-century parliamentary debate did not just occur for its own sake, rather it had a constitutional and political dimensi…

Secret ballotSociology and Political SciencedebateWestminster systemparliamentary cultureParliamentary procedurePoliticsExtension (metaphysics)LawPolitical cultureta517ta615SociologyRelation (history of concept)Parliaments, Estates and Representation
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The issue of the secret ballot in the Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies, c.1830–72: an extension of the nineteenth-century parliamentary culture o…

2015

Summary. In this article, debating societies are considered as an inherent part of the formation of a parliamentary culture in Britain. Despite the fact that the nineteenth-century Cambridge and Oxford Union Societies were considered to be ‘training grounds’ for statesmen, their debating practices have not been systematically studied in relation to national politics. This is largely due to the fact that the role of debate has remained understated in studies of parliamentary history, even though it is one of the fundamental political features in the Westminster system. Nineteenth-century parliamentary debate did not just occur for its own sake, rather it had a constitutional and political di…

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