Elites and Brexit: Ideological Realignment in the House of Lords, 2000-2020

• In Event: Analytical Approaches to Studying Congress

Brief Overview

Analyzing about 2,400 roll call votes with Optimal Classification (OC) ideal point estimation models, we show that, in the post-Brexit period, the House of Lord has undergone a process of ideological realignment after the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Authors

• Marc S. Jacob, ETH Zurich

• Ugur Ozdemir, University of edinburgh