Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings?

Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Redoano, Michela

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2019.03.024

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“…Inequality, and especially perceived inequality, has been documented by Liberini, Oswald, Proto, and Redoano (2019) as a trigger for the Brexit vote. They illustrate the importance of perceived relative deprivation (as compared to the actual financial state of the individual) as a factor for voting for the Leave campaign in the Brexit referendum.…”

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Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: The tale of those stuck behind

Tubadji

Colwill

Webber

2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper promotes the idea of a culturally‐sensitive Tiebout–Hirschman–Rothschild mechanism underpinning the UK's 2016 Brexit result. Our culture‐based development (CBD) model asserts a trade‐off between two rival types of voting: voting with one's feet or voting in a radical way due to being unable to vote with one's feet, akin to a protest vote. We explore the effects on the Brexit vote of shares of public spending on culture and a particular type of migration dynamic that triggers social closure. Our findings reveal that strong support for the Leave campaign was encountered in areas with lower local government expenditure on culture and in areas with higher outflows of UK residents. Previous literature had found that left‐behind places and places with concentrations of highly educated commuters are the pro‐Brexit nests. Our CBD mechanism of perceived relative deprivation offers a reconciling explanation of these seemingly controversial findings.

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Section: “Voting With Their Feet” and Other Brexit Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: The tale of those stuck behind

Tubadji

Colwill

Webber

2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Our results for the socio-demographic controls (the propensity to vote leave is lower for women, those with university degrees and of Scottish or European ancestry) are in line with the profile of the Brexit voter: old white man, English, and low educated (Ashcroft, 2016;Goodwin & Heath, 2016;Swales, 2016). The lack of significance of the socio-economic controls is interesting, given that the austerity policies after the 2008 financial crisis have been blamed for the leave outcome (Dorling, 2016) and Brexiteers have been depicted as financially concerned (Liberini et al, 2019), economically deprived (Swales, 2016), and losers of globalisation (Hobolt, 2016). Finally, the positive relationship between general satisfaction and the leave vote goes in line with Janmaat et al (2018), for whom the only group showing a significant increase in support for the Brexit was "the highly engaged and satisfied", which expressed satisfaction with democracy and high levels of trust in public officials; and with Liberini et al (2019), who found that the completely satisfied people were fractionally more likely to vote leave than the mostly dissatisfied ones.…”

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“…Not only had the NHS pledge a great impact on the British public but the leave campaign was described, overall, as more consistent because it confined itself to a small set of topics and core values (Shaw, Smith & Scully, 2017). Its success might have translated in two facts: the pro Brexit percentage increased as the deadline vote day became closer (Liberini, Oswald, Proto & Redoano, 2019), and the only type of voter profile, which was also the most numerous (30.3 per cent), recording a significant increase in support for leave from 2016 to 2017 was the highly politically engaged, which was also the more susceptible to the leave campaign (Janmaat, Melis, Green & Pensiero, 2018).…”

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Perceptions of the state of health services and the Brexit vote

Fernández

Santana

2021

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The reasons behind the Brexit have been extensively analysed. Different studies have focused on factors as diverse as age, education, ethnicity, income, social class, unemployment, religion, immigration, and the support for parties and leaders, amongst others. No work has however studied the impact of perceptions of the quality of health services. This void is surprising because the Brexiteers repeatedly (and misleadingly) promised that 350 million pounds a week would be spent on the National Health Service (NHS) should the exit option triumph. As people who perceive health services to be bad might benefit from a better endowed NHS, we expect them to show a higher propensity to vote leave. Our results provide strong support for this, even when a wide array of controls is considered. This finding constitutes an original contribution to a crucial international political issue and stresses the importance of perceptions and fake news for voting behaviour.

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“…While recent psychological research has studied voter preferences in the context of Brexit (Harper & Hogue, 2019;Liberini, Oswald, Proto, & Redoano, 2019;Macdougall, Feddes, & Doosje, 2020), the human consequences of the referendum remain largely understudied (Brophy, 2019) -especially in populations of British citizens living within the EU. This research explored the lived experiences of Brexit for British Remain-Minded citizens living in Luxembourg.…”

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Loss and assimilation: Lived experiences of Brexit for British citizens living in Luxembourg

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Fido²,

Lennon³

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Inconsistent political realities are associated with mental health issues such as hopelessness, anxiety, and depression. The psychological impact of Brexit is clearly an important and timely issue, but hitherto has been understudied. This study uses a critical realist approach to qualitatively explore the lived experiences of British Citizens living in Luxembourg during the Brexit era. The study carried out semi-structured interviews with 8 British nationals aged 18-65. An experientially-focused Thematic Analysis was conducted, exploring two main themes: Loss (with psychological and broader social implications) and Integration (contrasting the mover's community with the receiving community). This study demonstrates the psychological impact of Brexit and highlights the urgency for future researchers and mental health practitioners alike – both in the UK and overseas – to consider the human consequences associated with political upheaval. Open access materials for this project can be viewed here: https://osf.io/38rg7/?view_only=b8c04dfc3fe5474f9aff4897e370b3e6.

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Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings?

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Cited by 42 publications

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Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: The tale of those stuck behind

Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: The tale of those stuck behind

Perceptions of the state of health services and the Brexit vote

Loss and assimilation: Lived experiences of Brexit for British citizens living in Luxembourg

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