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Democratic Economics or Gladstonian Finance?

In: The Political Economy of Robert Lowe

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  • John Maloney

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Lowe’s attitude to democracy, like his attitude to everything else, was utilitarian, utility in its turn requiring that no class interest dominated the others. Who should get the vote, therefore, depended on the balance of social forces as well as the level of education. In Australia, this led him to a highly provisional endorsement of general male suffrage: Popular election is a great evil and is only to be endured because it is designed to work out a greater good. If we find the good does not exceed the evil, let us discard the principle altogether.1

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  • John Maloney, 2005. "Democratic Economics or Gladstonian Finance?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Political Economy of Robert Lowe, chapter 7, pages 71-80, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50404-2_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230504042_7
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