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Summary information

Study title

Divisions of the House of Commons, 1841-1847

Creator

Aydelotte, W. O., University of Iowa, Department of History

Study number / PID

216 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-216-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


To study the social and economic composition of Parliament (1841 - 1847) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it.
Main Topics:

Variables
Topic and date of division, party alignment for each division, use of whips, total votes, party votes. The number of Ayes and Noes for the whole Parliament and for each of the two main party groups. The P-value (the % voting negative) for the whole Parliament, the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the two main groups within the Conservatives, those who were not Peelites and those who were: and a summary statistic showing the proportion voting negative for each of these five groups. The fit of each division (if it did fit) in each of the 24 scales used in the project.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Topics

Government, political systems and organisationsHistory

Keywords

AGEAGRARIAN STRUCTUREATTITUDESBANKSBIOGRAPHIESBRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESBUSINESSESCLUBSCONSTITUENCIESCORPORAL PUNISHMENTDEATH PENALTYDIVISIONS
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Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Ireland, United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Parliamentary divisions
Cross-national
National

Universe

The 1029 divisions that took place in the British House of Commons during the lifetime of the Parliament of 1841 - 1847

Sampling procedure

Stratified, systematic sample. All divisions were classified by topic. Divisions in which less than 200 participated were excluded

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Compilation of published data and empirically derived scale scores

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1975

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Aydelotte, W. (1954) 'The House of Commons in the 1840's', History (new series), 249-262