Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics

Daniel Wincott; Gregory Davies; Alan Wager

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1805423

Crisis, what crisis? Conceptualizing crisis, UK pluri-constitutionalism and Brexit politics

Daniel Wincott^*, Gregory Davies, Alan Wager

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Policy Institute at King's

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Has Brexit triggered a constitutional crisis? Crisis is one of a family of concepts, including tipping points, catastrophic equilibrium and failure, identifying it as a decisive moment for overcoming contradictions and ambiguities. Across multiple UK levels–the whole state, constituent nations and different legal jurisdictions–even in ‘normal times’ the constitution has been marked by both a dominant ‘Anglo-British imaginary’ and territorial ambiguities. Drawn into political debate, these ambiguities became sources of basic constitutional instability during Theresa May’s premiership. Although May avoided full-blown constitutional crisis, one may yet come. Equally, she did oversee basic constitutional change, not necessarily in the form of crisis.

Original language	English
Journal	REGIONAL STUDIES
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1805423
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 17 Sept 2020

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Anglo-British imaginary
Brexit
crisis
devolution
pluri-constitutionalism
UK constitution

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