The outcome of the 2017 general election—a hung parliament—defied most predictions. In
this article, we draw on aggregate‐level data to conduct an initial exploration of the vote …

Why did Britain vote for Brexit? What was the relative importance of factors such as
education, age, immigration and ethnic diversity? And to what extent did the pattern of public …

The 2017 UK General Election came less than a year after one of the most significant
political events in recent British and European politics history: the referendum decision of …

Abstract The 2017 UK General Election saw the collapse of UKIP and an unusually
influential campaign that saw Labour improving from a likely historic defeat to almost pulling …

The Nobel prize winning economist Elinor Ostrom (2000, p. 33) once warned against 'the
danger of self-evident truths' and suggested that 'the fact that something is widely believed …

SUMMARY On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU).
We analyse vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom …

In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European
Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in …

The general election of June 2017 revealed a continued tilting of the political axis in
England that has been long in the making. This was not a Brexit 'realignment'—in that the …

Soon after the UK referendum in June 2016, sociologists and other social scientists began to
evaluate the implications of the decision both for the UK and, more importantly, for the …

The outcome of the British referendum on European Union (EU) membership sent
shockwaves through Europe. While Britain is an outlier when it comes to the strength of …