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Hard or Soft? The Politics of Brexit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2016

Anand Menon  and
Brigid Fowler
Anand Menon*
Affiliation:
King's College, London
Brigid Fowler*
Affiliation:
The UK in a Changing Europe
*
E-mail: anand.menon@kcl.ac.uk
E-mail: brigid.fowler@kcl.ac.uk
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Abstract

The British people voted for Brexit for a variety of reasons. A literature is emerging that seeks to explain the outcome using the increasing amount of aggregate and individual data being generated. Less often considered is the impact those factors that shaped the referendum outcome might continue to exert on the debate about the UK's future relationship with the EU. We argue that they will continue to weigh on political debates. The continued resonance of the Leave message militates against anything but what has come to be known as a ‘hard Brexit’.

Keywords

UK-EU relationsEuropean institutionsSingle MarketBrexithard BrexitBritish politicsreferendumvoting behaviourpublic opinionD52D70D73Z13P16O52F33
Type
Research Articles
Information
National Institute Economic Review , Volume 238 , November 2016 , pp. R4 - R12
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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