Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

F. D. PARSONS holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK where he studied under the late Dr Henry Pelling at St. John's College. Since 1981 he has been a Professor of History at Franklin College in Switzerland.