Hard or Soft? The Politics of Brexit

TY - JOUR

T1 - Hard or Soft?

T2 - The Politics of Brexit

AU - Menon, Anand

AU - Fowler, Brigid

PY - 2016/11/1

Y1 - 2016/11/1

N2 - 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’.

AB - 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’.

KW - Brexit

KW - British politics

KW - European institutions

KW - hard Brexit

KW - public opinion

KW - referendum

KW - Single Market

KW - UK-EU relations

KW - voting behaviour

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994246548&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/002795011623800110

DO - 10.1177/002795011623800110

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84994246548

SN - 0027-9501

VL - 238

SP - R4-R12

JO - NATIONAL INSTITUTE ECONOMIC REVIEW

JF - NATIONAL INSTITUTE ECONOMIC REVIEW

IS - 1

ER -