The Citizen and Government

1947 · John A. Hawgood · The New Democracy series

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Book on British parliamentary and local government and citizen participation in The New Democracy series, with 17 colour charts designed by the Isotype Institute. Charts cover extension of the franchise 1830–1928, redistribution of seats in 1832 and 1935, voting turnout in larger towns and in Birmingham, Bradford and Barnsley, votes cast and MPs elected 1918–1945, the legislative process in the USA and Britain, local government areas in Worcestershire, council duties and structure, British and German local government hierarchies, trade union democracy, pressure groups from the Anti-Corn Law League to the Beveridge Plan, how an opinion poll works, and channels of education for citizenship. Written by John A. Hawgood.

Author: John A. Hawgood
Charts: Isotype Institute
Publisher: Nicholson & Watson, London
Series: The New Democracy
Year: 1947
Language: English
Pages: 20 · 39 chart scans
Text: OCR, searchable
Rights: Free and open for research use

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A generation ago millions gave their lives in a crusade to make the world safe

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for democracy. The crusade ended in complete victory; democracy appeared trium-

phant everywhere. And then something went wrong. Elation and enthusiasm gave

place to disillusionment and frustration. The men whom their country needed

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became men without work; homes for heroes proved to be slum tenements;

hundreds of thousands of the country’s children remained below the poverty line. ny:

Within little more than twenty years of their triumph the crusaders of democracy

were facing disaster on the beaches of Dunkirk.

It need not and must not happen again. We have won another war. This time the

democracies must win the peace. The peacemakers of 1919 lost the peace for /
democracy because they failed to distinguish between the underlying principles of John Aj Hawgood
democracy and the outward forms in which it is clothed in a particular age. They
thought they could re-establish the principles by simply restoring the old
nineteenth-century forms. We are to-day paying the dismal price of their blunder.
This time we must see to it that twentieth-century democracy is tuned up to
With 17 pictorial charts in colour designed
twentieth-century conditions. We must recognise that scientific advance, hastened
by the Isotype Institute
by the stimulus of total war, has created new possibilities and evolved. new tech-
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government elections franchise local government parliament trade unions public opinion citizenship

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