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The political economy of Brexit: explaining the vote

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  • Joshua Matti
  • Yang Zhou

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The UK’s closely contested Brexit vote to leave the EU is expected to have a significant impact on the UK and EU. While calculating the impact of Brexit is difficult since the UK is still formally a member of the EU, understanding the vote is possible. Leading up to the referendum, public opinion was divided along demographic and economic lines. This article uses referendum results at the local government level to test whether national, racial, religious and economic factors actually influenced the vote. Results indicate that demographic variables played a role while economic variables did not.

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  • Joshua Matti & Yang Zhou, 2017. "The political economy of Brexit: explaining the vote," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(16), pages 1131-1134, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:24:y:2017:i:16:p:1131-1134
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1259738
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