Tubadji, A., Colwill, T. and Webber, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-1488-3436 (2021) Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: the tale of those stuck behind. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 13 (2). pp. 247-277. ISSN 1757-7802
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Regional Science Policy and Practice © 2020 RSAI. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Regional Science Policy and Practice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Culture; Public goods; Austerity; Human capital; Migration; Brexit |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2021 13:11 |
Last Modified: | 28 Dec 2022 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/rsp3.12387 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169422 |