The consequences of Gregory Conti's parliament the mirror of the nation. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Macleod, Christopher
• Is Part Of: History of European ideas. Volume 49:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 159
• Page End: 161
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Parliamentary reform -- Nineteenth Century political thought -- consequentialism -- proportional representation -- democracy -- mirroring; Europe -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals; Europe -- History -- Periodicals; 190.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2022.2064683
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-6599

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this review of Gregory Conti's Parliament the Mirror of the Nation, I offer an outline of what I take to the thesis of that work: that during the mid-Victorian period, mirroring was a key goal of representation, which dominated and framed discussions of post-1832 debates on parliamentary reform. I focus, in particular, on the teleological orientation of the arguments that Conti uncovers in his systematic reconstruction of debates that Conti offers.