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Brexit, Politics & Governance

The puzzle of EU referendums

Ece Özlem Atikcan, Assistant Professor in Political Science at Laval University, asks whether previous referendums on European Union treaties contain many lessons and insights into the upcoming referendum in the UK. This piece is part of the UCL European Institute’s first guest editor week on openDemocracy.  Referendum campaigns matter more than election campaigns. Research has shown time and time again that people tend to change their minds during … Continue reading The puzzle of EU referendums

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Brexit, Politics & Governance

Early Steps on the Long Road to the Brexit Referendum

Swee Leng Harris and Justine Stefanelli, Research Fellows in Law at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, take a look at the diverging attitudes within the Conservative Party towards EU membership and reform, and how some of these are directly at odds with those of party leader and Prime Minister, David Cameron. How might this lack of internal agreement impact on the Conservative Party both domestically in the referendum campaign, … Continue reading Early Steps on the Long Road to the Brexit Referendum

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The Upcoming Negotiations on (a Few Aspects of) the Terms of Britain’s EU Membership

As David Cameron begins negotiations for EU reform in earnest, Neill Nugent, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, examines the challenges in identifying the measures that will be acceptable for the remaining 27 EU member states, whilst still delivering the changes Cameron has promised the British electorate. The referendum promised for 2016/17 on UK membership of the European Union is, like its 1975 predecessor on UK membership of the European Community, a … Continue reading The Upcoming Negotiations on (a Few Aspects of) the Terms of Britain’s EU Membership

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