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‘The Too Clever by Half People’ and Parliament
Parliamentary History Pub Date : 2018-07-01 , DOI: 10.1111/1750-0206.12333
William Whyte

The role of intellectuals in shaping pressure on parliament has often been neglected and still more frequently downplayed. Even intellectuals themselves have doubted their own political importance; hence Walter Bagehot's observation that ‘the too clever by half people, who live in Bohemia, ought to have no more influence in parliament, than they have in England, and they can scarcely have less’. This article considers what it is to be an intellectual in politics – and what political role intellectuals played in Victorian Britain. It concludes that intellectuals were crucial in helping to define the nature of parliament and of the political process, articulating an ideology which shaped the ways in which other groups put pressure on parliament.

中文翻译:

'半人太聪明'和议会

知识分子在对议会施加压力方面的作用常常被忽视,而且更经常被轻描淡写。就连知识分子自己也怀疑自己的政治重要性;因此,沃尔特·白芝浩 (Walter Bagehot) 观察到“生活在波西米亚的半人半聪明的人,在议会中的影响力不应该比他们在英格兰的影响力大,而且他们几乎不可能有更少的影响力”。本文考虑了在政治中成为知识分子是什么——以及知识分子在维多利亚时代的英国所扮演的政治角色。它的结论是,知识分子在帮助定义议会和政治进程的性质方面至关重要,阐明了一种意识形态,这种意识形态塑造了其他群体向议会施加压力的方式。
更新日期:2018-07-01
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