‘Legitimate’<i>versus</i>‘Illegitimate’ Influences: Aristocratic Electioneering in Mid‐Victorian Britain

Heesom, Alan

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“…Another pervasive form of electoral corruption during Mill's lifetime -and one which had also been a feature of political life under the unreformed Parliamentwas candidates making use of their own private money to win elections. Bribery of voters by politicians was extremely common during the Victorian era (Gash, 1971: 105-136, 154-202;Heesom, 1998). The absence of a secret ballot in particular allowed electors to credibly sell their vote to the highest bidder.…”

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Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill’s political thought

Selinger

2016

European Journal of Political Theory

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For nearly half a century John Stuart Mill was a major critic of the forms of electoral corruption prevalent in Victorian England. Yet this political commitment has been largely overlooked by scholars. This article offers the first synoptic account of Mill’s writings against corruption. It argues that Mill’s opposition to corruption was not accidental or temperamental, but sprung from fundamental principles of his political thought. It also shows that Mill’s opposition to electoral corruption put him at odds with other leading liberal thinkers of his era, who thought that the existing ways in which wealth influenced elections had positive effects – or at the very least that they did not impede a healthy electoral contest from taking place. Mill’s fervent intent to eliminate corruption also distinguishes him from many liberal theorists today, who either do not write about electoral corruption, or consider it an issue to be managed and lived-with. Reflecting on Mill’s political thought alongside other liberal thinkers raises the question of whether liberal states can draw a definitive line between prevalent forms of corruption and legitimate modes of political action, and eliminate the former, or whether we must regard corruption as among the constitutive dilemmas of a liberal politics.

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Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill’s political thought

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2016

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‘L’âme générale d’une assemblée’: a neglected parliamentarian and the restoration theory of representation

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‘Legitimate’versus‘Illegitimate’ Influences: Aristocratic Electioneering in Mid‐Victorian Britain

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Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill’s political thought

Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill’s political thought

Patronage as Politics in South Asia

‘L’âme générale d’une assemblée’: a neglected parliamentarian and the restoration theory of representation

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