Tag: Apr-1769

Poll Books: a History

Posted on February 1, 2023 (July 11, 2023) by Matthew Grenby

Edmund Green gives the definitive guide to their varieties, formats and contexts [40-minute read] Voting is a means of aggregating individual preferences into collective decisions, and through which the authority to enforce those decisions is legitimated.[1] The point of voting is to have one’s vote counted. This makes the study of historical voting unusual, in […]

The Reform of Voting

Posted on January 2, 2022 (July 3, 2023) by Matthew Grenby

Jon Rosebank argues that very few wanted to replace the unreformed electoral system [15-minute read] It would be easy, from our modern perspective, to imagine that the eighteenth-century electoral system was increasingly dysfunctional. There was, after all, much evidence of growing discontent with it. Indeed, its critics complained about the electoral system under a succession […]