Summary information

Study title

Working Members of the British House of Commons : England, 1691-1693

Creator

Horwitz, H., University of Iowa, Department of History

Moore, T. K., University of Iowa, Department of History

Study number / PID

217 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-217-1 (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 (1691 - 1693) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it.
Main Topics:

Variables
Details of attendance at sessions and parliaments, constituency type and size, and political party of respondent. Number of: second reading committee nominations, committees of investigation nominations, tellerships, speeches, areas of service (data were collected for 1st and 2nd sessions).

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

HistoryGovernment, political systems and organisations

BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESCOMMITTEESCONSTITUENCIESELECTIONSLEGAL PROFESSIONLOWER HOUSEMEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTGOVERNMENT MINISTERSPARLIAMENTARY RECORDSPERSONAL PAPERSPOLITICAL BEHAVIOURPUBLICATIONS

Data collection period

01/01/1971 - 01/01/1971

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

National

Elites

Members of Parliament

Universe

All 528 individuals who sat in the House of Commons during the 1st and 2nd sessions of Parliament in 1691 - 1693

Sampling procedure

159 MP's were selected as `workers'. A working member was defined as one who reached a high level of activity in at least one of the four areas of service selected for analysis (see publication)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Compilation of published data plus materials from private papers, etc.

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1977

Terms of data access

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

Aydelotte, W. (1954) 'A statistical analysis of the Parliament of 1841: some problems of method', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 141-155
Moore, T. and Horwitz, H. (1971) 'Who runs the House?: Aspects of parliamentary organisation in the later seventeenth century', Journal of Modern History, 205-227