The Brexit Policy Fiasco
About this ebook
The collective concern of this volume is twofold. First, it advances possible explanations of how the Brexit issue arose. Why was Britain’s membership of the EU thought to be so problematic for so many members of the British political elite and ultimately for a majority of voters? How did we get to June 2016 and the Brexit Referendum? Secondly, the volume examines how the issue was managed (or mismanaged) following the referendum result up until the Withdrawal Agreement in March 2019. The contributions to this volume explore these questions by looking at Brexit from different analytical angles. Some authors explore the long-term causes of Brexit, by disentangling the fraught relationship between the UK and the EU, which had provided the Brexit train with steam; others explore the highly conflictual domestic political dynamics in the run-up to the referendum and in the negotiations of a Brexit deal.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.
About the author
Jeremy Richardson is Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His most recent book is British Policy-making and The Need for a Post-BREXIT Policy Style, Palgrave, 2018. Previous titles include European Union. Power and policy-making, Fourth Edition, edited with Sonia Mazey, Routledge, and Constructing a Policy-Making State? Policy Dynamics in the EU (Ed.), 2012, Oxford University Press
Berthold Rittberger is Professor of International Politics at LMU Munich, Germany. His research focuses on EU integration, political representation and regulatory-policy-making
