Administrative reform
What Administrative reform means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Sweeping changes designed to stimulate trade and restore confidence, advanced through the 1844 Companies Act regulating corporate administration.
Attempts to reduce party control and introduce competitive elections, which also weakened central authority.
Topics that use Administrative reform
- 1F Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885 – Political change and social reform, 1832-1846 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 38.1: The making of modern Russia, 1855–1991 - 5 Gorbachev and the downfall of Soviet communism, 1985–91 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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