(2017). Brexit: Why Britain voted to leave the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Clarke, Harold D., Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley (2017) Brexit - Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press....
Such anecdotes chime with polls across the country. Research by UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE), a think-tank, finds that most voters have not in fact changed their minds since 2016. But because as many as 16-20% of those who voted to leave have switched sides, compared with only 6%...
Why did the U.K. join the European Union? The Joining of UK as EU Member: EU was created to promote peace, to curb conflict, to unify economic and monetary system, to protect the economic interests, to protect the environment, to promote inclusion and combat discrimination, to encourage te...
In many countries students who leave high school have no understanding of how to manage their money. Why is this the case? What can be done to improve students' understanding of how to manage personal finance? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowle...
Why has the EU been so unpopular in the UK despite the economic growth for the country (e.g. becoming the fifth largest economy in 2010s)? Explain the economic arguments for and against Britain's exit from the European Union. Why did Great Britain leave the European Union?...
Today, Gibraltar has a population of about 34,000 people. It no longer has quite the strategic importance it did a century ago. Today the economy is mostly centered around banking, tourism, and internet gambling. One of the unique quirks about Gibraltar is that it is home to the only wild...
First,the European Union set emission standards, but left surveillance to national gov-ernments, making for Hobbes’s covenants without swords. Second, national organ-izations for applied research did find that emissions were too high, but were notallowed to publicize this, making for Durkheimian...
The 2010s Skepticism of this model—sometimes labeledneoliberalismby critics who tie it to 19th-century liberal arguments in favor of free trade—grew, however, and Britain in 2016 voted toleavethe European Union.15That same year Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on a platform th...
recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures. If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their...
In subsequent years, GBP/USD fluctuated between roughly 1.40 and 1.70, but then cameBrexitin June 2016, when the United Kingdom surprisingly voted to leave the European Union (EU). The pound was knocked down virtually overnight from the 1.40–1.45 area to the 30-year low of 1.32, where ...