Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 May 2015
- ISBN 9780198738787
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages338 pages
- Size 223x148x24 mm
- Weight 528 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process.
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Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13), it demonstrates that public officials faced multiple incompatible demands, but that political partisanship helped to prioritise them, and to hammer out settlements that embodied a version of the national interest. These decisions were then transmitted to agents in overseas through a mixture of personal incentives and partisan loyalties which built trust and turned these informal networks into instruments of public policy.
However, the process of building trust and supplying funds laid officials and agents open to accusations of embezzlement, fraud and financial misappropriation. In particular, although successive financial officials ran entrepreneurial private financial ventures that enabled the army overseas to avoid dangerous financial shortfalls, they found it necessary to cover the costs and risks by receiving illegal 'gratifications' from the regiments. Reconstructing these transactions in detail, this book demonstrates that these corrupt payments advanced the public service, and thus that 'corruption' was as much a dispute over ends as means.
Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that state formation in eighteenth-century Britain was a contested process of interest aggregation, in which common partisan aims helped to negotiate compromises between various irreconcilable public priorities and private interests, within the frameworks provided by formal institutions, and then collaboratively imposed through overlapping and intersecting networks of formal and informal agents.
[Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713] Sets out to challenge a set of assumptions and takes them apart with diligent recourse to sources that have either been long neglected, or misinterpreted, and for this Graham is thoroughly deserving of congratulation. It is a work that will be pored over by scholars interested in a variety of disciplines, but most of all those with an interest in the military and administrative history, and it will be required reading for anyone seeking to make further examinations into the mechanics of state0formation and the nature of corruption.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Conventions
Abbreviations
The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1830
Public Finance and the Pay Office
The Pay Office under Charles Fox, 1702-1705
The Pay Office in Northern Europe, 1705-1710
The Pay Office in Southern Europe, 1705-1710
James Brydges and the Pay Office, 1710-1714
Conclusion: A Partisan-Political State, 1660-1830
Appendices
Bibliography
