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Cover of Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Edited by John M. Robson

Published: 1981
DOI: 10.4324/9780415480581
Set ISBN: 9780415480581

Set Contents

Essays on Politics and Society

Edited by
J. M. Robson

By
John Stuart Mill

Volume Contents

Front Matter
Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform 1859
- Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
- Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform
Recent Writers on Reform 1859
- Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
- Recent Writers on Reform
Considerations on Representative Government 1861
- Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
- Preface
- I
  
  To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice
- II
  
  The Criterion of a Good Form of Government
- III
  
  That the Ideally Best Form of Government is Representative Government
- IV
  
  Under What Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable
- V
  
  Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies
- VI
  
  Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable
- VII
  
  Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only
- VIII
  
  Of the Extension of the Suffrage
- IX
  
  Should there be Two Stages of Election?
- X
  
  Of the Mode of Voting
- XI
  
  Of the Duration of Parliaments
- XII
  
  Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?
- XIII
  
  Of a Second Chamber
- XIV
  
  Of the Executive in a Representative Government
- XV
  
  Of Local Representative Bodies
- XVI
  
  Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government
- XVII
  
  Of Federal Representative Governments
- XVIII
  
  Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State
Centralisation 1862
- Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
- Centralisation
Back Matter