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

Daniel Wincott, Gregory Davies and Alan Wager

Regional Studies, 2021, vol. 55, issue 9, 1528-1537

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1805423

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