The EU locked in neoliberalism and locked out its people. Brexit is the alternative

Jones, Lee (2016) The EU locked in neoliberalism and locked out its people. Brexit is the alternative. LSE Brexit (10 Jun 2016). Website.

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The choice facing Britain in the EU referendum is best understood, Lee Jones suggests, by using two concepts he has discussed in his work with Shahar Hameiri: ‘the politics of scale’, and state transformation. In a nutshell, the EU emerged through the rescaling of governance to inter-elite networks insulated – by design – from popular control, which lock in anti-democratic and conservative policies. Restoring popular control has to involve leaving the EU and revitalising national democracy in a progressive, internationalist direction.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2017 09:52
Last Modified:	10 Sep 2025 09:54
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73120

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