Hard or Soft? The Politics of Brexit

Anand Menon and Brigid Fowler

National Institute Economic Review, 2016, vol. 238, issue 1, R4-R12

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 relations; European institutions; Single Market; Brexit; hard Brexit; British politics; referendum; voting behaviour; public opinion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D52 D70 D73 F33 O52 P16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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