Statesmanship and party government : a study of Burke and Bolingbroke / Harvey C. Mansfield.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1965.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780226022208
- 022602220X
- 1283990946
- 9781283990943
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century
- Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 18e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- Politics and government
- Great Britain
- 1700-1799
- 329.942 22
- JN1119 .M3 1965eb
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Paperback edition 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271) and index.
Chapter One. The Origins of Party Government; Chapter Two. The Statesman's Presumption; Chapter Three. Bolingbroke's System; Chapter Four. Bolingbroke's Program; Chapter Five. The Bolingbroke Party; Chapter Six. The British Constitution: Popular Government; Chapter Seven. The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen; Chapter Eight. Presumptive Virtue; Chapter Nine. Statesmanship and Prescription; Notes; Bibliography; Index
In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works by Bolingbroke published posthumously, Burke created his most eloquent advocacy of the party system. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the material, Mansfield shows that present-day parties must be understood in the light of the history of party government. The complicated organization and the public actions of modern parties are th.
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