Heppell, T orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-6993, Crines, A and Jeffery, D (2017) The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: The Voting of Conservative Parliamentarians. Journal of Common Market Studies, 55 (4). pp. 762-778. ISSN 0021-9886
Abstract
This paper considers the attitudes of members of the parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) during the European Union (EU) membership referendum held in the United Kingdom (UK) on the 23rd June 2016. First, the paper identifies the voting positions - remain or leave - of each Conservative parliamentarian in order to assess the strength of opinion within the PCP and place it within its historical context. Second, the paper uses multivariate analysis to test a series of hypotheses about the voting of Conservative parliamentarians. Through this we will aim to identify whether any associations existed between advocates and opponents of Brexit and social variables such as age, schooling, university, occupation and gender; political variables such as constituency marginality, and whether they were a minister, an ex-minister or a permanent backbencher; and the ideological variable of morality – i.e. support for or opposition to same sex marriage.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Heppell, T., Crines, A., and Jeffery, D. (2017) The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: The Voting of Conservative Parliamentarians. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12529. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | EU Referendum; British European policy; British Conservative euroscepticism; Parliamentary Conservative Party; Prime Minister David Cameron |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2016 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2019 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12529 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jcms.12529 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106531 |