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Appeasing Eurosceptics? What’s really going on when Britain votes No in the Council of the EU

Hagemann, Sara ORCID: 0000-0002-0104-1782, Hobolt, Sara and Wratil, Christopher (2016) Appeasing Eurosceptics? What’s really going on when Britain votes No in the Council of the EU. LSE Brexit (20 May 2016). Website.

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Abstract

Those campaigning for a Leave vote in the EU referendum often state that the UK has never been on the winning side when it has voted against a proposal in the Council of the European Union. Remain campaigners, however, have responded by arguing that agreements are made by consensus in the Council and that the UK has a strong influence. Sara Hagemann, Sara Hobolt and Christopher Wratil (left to right) write that in reality, votes against a proposal in the Council act largely as signals to a government’s domestic audience, and this explains why UK governments have voted against proposals more than other member states.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/
Additional Information: © 2016 The Author(s)
Divisions: European Institute
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2017 10:50
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 20:34
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73164

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