Uncovering the local factors that helped shape the Brexit referendum
Olivas Osuna, J. J.
, Kiefel, M. & Gartzou-Katsouyanni, K.
(10 November 2021)
Uncovering the local factors that helped shape the Brexit referendum.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
, Kiefel, M. & Gartzou-Katsouyanni, K.
(10 November 2021)
Uncovering the local factors that helped shape the Brexit referendum.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog.
Why was support for Brexit so widely divergent across the UK? Drawing on a new study, José Javier Olivas Osuna, Max Kiefel and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni illustrate that while a variety of economic and cultural explanations for the result have been put forward, these processes were shaped at the local level. They find that citizens with similar socio-demographic profiles adopted very different attitudes toward Brexit depending on the local context in which they lived.