The Great Reform Act 1832, House of Lords Dataset

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Toke S Aidt, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics; Franck Raphael, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Economics

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Project Citation: 

Aidt, Toke S, and Raphael, Franck. The Great Reform Act 1832,  House of Lords Dataset. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193941V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary The dataset contains the data that underpin the results reported in Chapter 7 “The Battle with the Lords: Voting on Reform in the House of Lords” of the book “Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights. A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832”. The goal of the project is to understand the origins of democracy in general and the motivation behind the Great Reform Act of 1832 in particular. The data are used to study the roll call votes on 7 October 1831, 13 April 1832 and 7 May 1832 in the House of Lords.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Democratization; Great Reform Act 1832; House of Lords; Roll call votes; Violent unrest; Peaceful Agitaion
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage England, Wales, London
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1828 – 1832 (Some earlier information (from the middle ages onwards) relating to the aristocratic peerage. )
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2020 – 2022
Universe:  View help for Universe The English and Welsh peers sitting in the House of Lords during the 1831-1832 period  
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; roll call voting data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes The deposited Read Me Metadata document contains details of the sources from which the data are drawn and a definition of each variable in the dataset.

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Secondary sources                

  • Brock, Michael G., The Great Reform Act. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1973. Cannon, John A., Parliamentary reform, 1640-1832. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1973.  
  • Horn, Nancy, and Charles Tilly, Contentious Gatherings in Britain, 1758-1834. Ann Arbor, MA: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR working paper 8872, 1988.
  • Fisher, David (ed.), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1820-1832, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Namier, Lewis B., and John Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754–1790. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Philbin, J. Holladay, Parliamentary Representation, 1832, England and Wales, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965.
  • Sack, James J., “The House of Lords and parliamentary patronage in Great Britain”, Historical Journal 23 (4), 913-937, 1980.
  • Stooks Smith, Henry. The Parliaments of England. Chichester, UK: Political Reference Publications, 1973.
    Thorne, R. G., The House of Commons, 1790–1820. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  • Turberville, A.S, The House of Lords in the Age of Reform, 1784–1837: With An Epilogue on Aristocracy and the Advent of Democracy, 1837–1867, ed. Reginald James White (London: Faber and Faber, 1958).

Primary sources
  • Population Census of Great Britain, 1811, 1821, 1831.
  • Dod, Charles R. and Dod, Robert Phipps, Dod’s Parliamentary Companion. Hailsham, England: Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd., 1832.
  • Lodge, Edmund, The peerage of the British Empire as at present existing, Saunders and Otley, London, 1832.
  • Hansard House of Lords (HL) Debates (various issues).
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Peer in House of Lords
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit England, Wales, London

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