History A-Level
Democratisation and its limits
What Democratisation and its limits means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Democratisation and its limits
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The Acts widened the franchise step by step, with 1918 adding a partial women's vote and 1928 equalising it.
Topics that use Democratisation and its limits
- Paper 3, Option 36.1: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928 - 1 Reform of parliament (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Failed reform and resistance
- Legislative change
- Pressure and resistance
- Problems of representation
- Extent of democratisation
- Franchise and representation
- Parliamentary reform legislation
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