New Research on the Brexit Vote

Session Submission Type: Full Panel

Session Description

In the wake of the 2016 vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, analyses of the Brexit vote quickly converged on key variables explaining this outcome, in particular socio-economic status and attitudes toward globalization. A year after the Brexit vote, how well do these explanations hold up?

The papers on this panel analyze original data and reinterpret existing data on the Brexit referendum to provide new insight into explaining the Brexit vote. By evaluating the explanatory power of a range of new variables, specifying new models, and considering distinctive contexts, the authors contribute to broader understandings of what underpins arguments in favor of Brexit and what motivates voters to support them.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / British Politics Group

Individual Presentations

• Brexit or Block it? Party and Demographic EU divisions in Northern Ireland - Jonathan Tonge, University of Liverpool; Maire Braniff, Ulster University; Thomas Hennessey, Canterbury Christ Church University; Jim McAuley, University of Huddersfield; Sophie Whiting, University of Bath

• Challenging the Narrative of the Left Behind Brexiter - Lorenza Antonucci; Laszlo Horvath; André Krouwel, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Perceptions of Change, Ethnicity, and Immigration Attitudes in Brexit - Hyun Tae Kim, University of Southern California

Chair

• Jonathan Tonge University of Liverpool

Discussant

• Scott L. Greer University of Michigan