Bourgeois parliamentary expansion co-existed with periodic repression and suffrage curbs

Evidence

This, broadly speaking, lasted until the epoch of imperialism and culminated in the world war. In this process, attempts at insurrection alternated with pitiless repression, enlargements of political suffrage with restrictions, freedom of association with restriction or annulment of that freedom. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1952

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Control over suffrage was the key lever of political power — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 651