Britain and the Crisis of the European Union

Baker, David; Schnapper, Pauline

doi:10.1057/9781137005205

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“…279–280). The lack of British public enthusiasm for European integration would remain an important feature of the UK's membership of the European Union (Baker & Schnapper, ; Gifford, ), culminating 41 years later when, on the 23rd of June 2016, the British electorate voted by 51.9–48.1% to leave the EU. This invites the question of what drove the country to vote for ‘Brexit’ (a portmanteau of Britain and exit) and more broadly what motivates Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom.…”

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confidence: 99%

To Brexit or not to Brexit: The roles of Islamophobia, conspiracist beliefs, and integrated threat in voting intentions for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

Swami

Barron

Weis

et al. 2017

British J of Psychology

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We used an identities approach to examine voting intentions in the June 2016 UK referendum on membership of the European Union (EU). In April 2016, 303 British adults (58.7% women, age M = 34.73) indicated their voting intentions for the referendum and completed measures of identification with the national in‐group, perceived threat from Muslim immigrants, belief in Islamophobic conspiracy narratives, Islamophobia, general conspiracist beliefs, ambiguity tolerance, and belief in a clash of civilizations. Path and mediation analyses indicated that greater belief in Islamophobic conspiracy theories mediated the link between Islamophobia and intention to vote to leave. Islamophobia and Islamophobic conspiracist beliefs also mediated the effects of perceived threat from Muslims on voting intentions. Other variables acted as antecedents of perceived threat or Islamophobic conspiracy narratives. These findings highlight the role that identity‐based cognitions may have played in shaping voting intentions for the UK EU referendum.

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To Brexit or not to Brexit: The roles of Islamophobia, conspiracist beliefs, and integrated threat in voting intentions for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

Swami

Barron

Weis

et al. 2017

British J of Psychology

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“…Moreover, in UK political debate, the issue of national identity and sovereignty is mostly associated with full EU membership. For instance, Baker and Schnapper (2015) defines the UK's involvement into the EU as half-hearted, self-interested and defensive in nature. For the UK, Brexit also means withdrawing from the EU's supranational political institutions.…”

Section: The Roots Of British Euroscepticism and Brexit Dilemmamentioning

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Brexit Dilemma and the Future of Euroscepticism

Kaplan

2023

İktisadi İdari Ve Siyasal Araştırmalar Dergisi

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Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) has always been sceptical towards the European integration initiative and European Union (EU) membership has been a controversial issue in UK politics throughout the decades. Following the historic referendum questioning the UK’s EU membership in 2016, the withdrawal of the UK from the EU (Brexit) has been on the top of the agenda both in the UK and the EU. Brexit referendum result raised concerns about the impact of UK’s exit from the EU on other EU member states’ perceptions on EU full membership and the future of EU integration. This paper focuses on recent debate on Euroscepticism in the wake of the UK’s exit from the EU and provides an overview and discussion of the implications of Brexit on Eurosceptic attitudes in the UK and the EU member states. Brexit had positive implications towards integration efforts among the EU member states and public opinion towards EU remained mostly positive. However, Euroscepticism in the member states is likely to depend on the series of crises the EU would face and the future success of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). Keywords: European Union, Brexit, Euroscepticism.

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“…Although populism had already emerged in the UK's political landscape with parties such as the British National Party (BNP) and the UK Independence Party (UKIP), their discourse of discontent was yet to make an entrance into mainstream parties' debates (Baker & Schnapper 2015). As the 2015 General elections approached however, their message was clearly based on an elite versus the people approach and characterised by the usage of emotional and spoken language that became increasingly mainstream (for an excellent account see O'Toole 2019).…”

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‘People like that cannot be trusted’: populist and technocratic political styles, legitimacy, and distrust in the context of Brexit negotiations

Farrand¹,

Carrapiço²

2021

JCER

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Debates in and over the European Union (EU) are increasingly characterised as being based in arguments that are either ‘populist’ or ‘technocratic’. As systems of communication, this article argues, populism and technocracy possess dramatically different logics of argumentation, modes of communication and meaning-making, distinct narratives, with appeals to distinct sources of legitimacy. As such, actors adopting either political style construct their identity in a way that seeks to legitimise its own political action, while in turn delegitimising that of its opponents. This results in an atmosphere of distrust between actors using these different communication styles, making any form of negotiation or cooperation between them exceedingly difficult. In the context of the Brexit negotiations, which this article uses as a case study, the UK Government has adopted a populist style characterised by narratives of taking back control, legitimised by the will of the people, communicating often in a ‘low’ political style and using a narrative of crisis and threat. In comparison, the EU has adopted a technocratic style characterised by narratives of technical policy making and the need for rationality, legitimised through the laws, rules and processes by which it is governed, communicating in a ‘high’ political style while using a narrative of stability and continuity. These radically different views of the world have resulted in an increasing of tensions and distrust by the parties to Brexit negotiations that were already heightened by a sense of ‘betrayal’ over Brexit.

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Britain and the Crisis of the European Union

Cited by 26 publications

References 80 publications

To Brexit or not to Brexit: The roles of Islamophobia, conspiracist beliefs, and integrated threat in voting intentions for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

To Brexit or not to Brexit: The roles of Islamophobia, conspiracist beliefs, and integrated threat in voting intentions for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

Brexit Dilemma and the Future of Euroscepticism

‘People like that cannot be trusted’: populist and technocratic political styles, legitimacy, and distrust in the context of Brexit negotiations

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