Special issue: The politics and economics of Brexit

Summary:

The British referendum on continuing membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016 represented a turning point in the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the EU. The result – a 51.9% to 48.1% victory for Leave voters on a high turnout of 72.2% – was accepted by Prime Minister David Cameron as a defeat; he resigned. In March 2017, the British government under Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, officially beginning the negotiations of UK withdrawal from the EU – the Brexit process.

The economic and political effects of Brexit will be far-reaching for the UK and the EU and warrant scholarly examination. This collection has two main aims: to investigate the implications of Brexit for the EU and the UK, placing this assessment in the context of the long-term evolution of UK-EU relations; and to draw some lessons from it, relating these findings to debates within the literature on EU policy-making, comparative politics and political economy.

Articles in this issue:

• Introduction: the politics and economics of Brexit | Simon Bulmer & Lucia Quaglia
• Regulatory alignment and divergence after Brexit | Kenneth A. Armstrong
• Brexit and the battle for financial services | David Howarth & Lucia Quaglia
• Brexit and the perils of ‘Europeanised’ migration | James Dennison & Andrew Geddes
• Brexit: differentiated disintegration in the European Union | Frank Schimmelfennig
• Back to the future? Franco-German bilateralism in Europe's post-Brexit union | Ulrich Krotz & Joachim Schild
• Putting Brexit into perspective: the effect of the Eurozone and migration crises and Brexit on Euroscepticism in European states | Paul Taggart & Aleks Szczerbiak
• Taking back control: the political implications of Brexit | Andrew Gamble

ESO Records

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

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