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Brexit as a Critical Juncture in the Politics of UK Devolution: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Brexit on Parties’ Territorial Strategies

Jonathan Bradbury Orcid Logo, Alan Convery, Matthew Wall

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In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UKpolitics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in U...

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Published in: Regional & Federal Studies
Published: Taylor and Francis 2023
Online Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13597566.2023.2185610
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