This essay analyses the political thought of James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), barrister, journalist, and law member of the legislative council of British India from 1869 to 1872. Stephen was aware that extending the electoral franchise to working-class males was an unavoidable historical process in Britain, but at the same time he was afraid of the consequences of democratic developments. Assuming the colony as a model for the government of the metropole, Stephen drew inspiration from his Indian experience to suggest the constitutional strategies to rectify the Reform Act of 1867.

Cazzola, M. (2019). ‘Un lume indiano sui problemi europei’: James Fitzjames Stephen e il governo del Reform Act (1867). STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO, 8(1), 89-108 [10.4479/93380].

‘Un lume indiano sui problemi europei’: James Fitzjames Stephen e il governo del Reform Act (1867)

Cazzola, Matilde
2019

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This essay analyses the political thought of James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), barrister, journalist, and law member of the legislative council of British India from 1869 to 1872. Stephen was aware that extending the electoral franchise to working-class males was an unavoidable historical process in Britain, but at the same time he was afraid of the consequences of democratic developments. Assuming the colony as a model for the government of the metropole, Stephen drew inspiration from his Indian experience to suggest the constitutional strategies to rectify the Reform Act of 1867.
2019
Cazzola, M. (2019). ‘Un lume indiano sui problemi europei’: James Fitzjames Stephen e il governo del Reform Act (1867). STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO, 8(1), 89-108 [10.4479/93380].
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