On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...

Das Brexit-Referendum vom 23. Juni 2016 stellt einen zentralen Wendepunkt in der britischen Nachkriegsgeschichte dar. Bei der Analyse der Wahlergebnisse zeigt sich, dass das Abstimmen für den EU-Austritt offenbar wenig mit der Handels- und Wirtschaftspolitik der EU zusammenhängt. Stattdessen...

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

Das Brexit-Referendum vom 23. Juni 2016 stellt einen zentralen Wendepunkt in der britischen Nachkriegsgeschichte dar. Bei der Analyse der Wahlergebnisse zeigt sich, dass das Abstimmen für den EU-Austritt offenbar wenig mit der Handels- und Wirtschaftspolitik der EU zusammenhängt. Stattdessen...

Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...

What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...