An economic topology of the Brexit vote

Rudkin, Simon, Barros, Lucy, Dlotko, Pawel and Qiu, Wanlin 2024. An economic topology of the Brexit vote. Regional Studies 58 (3) , pp. 601-618. 10.1080/00343404.2023.2204123

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Abstract

A desire to understand the UK voting to leave the European Union continually attracts attention. We generate a multidimensional map of the economic geography of Brexit voting at the regional level, visualising hitherto unidentified insights into the regional manifestation of leave voting. While we find broad patterns consistent with national heterogeneities and the geographies of discontent, we also demonstrate support for Brexit locates in a far more homogenous set of regions than support for remaining in the European Union. Our conclusions apply at the constituency and local authority levels and are robust to inclusion of additional cultural and economic regional characteristics.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0034-3404
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 March 2025
Date of Acceptance:	10 April 2023
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2025 09:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176731

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