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The Referendum in Britain - A History (Hardcover)
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The Referendum in Britain - A History (Hardcover)
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The European Union referendum of 23 June 2016 proved to be the
trigger for the most prolonged period of political turbulence in
the peacetime history of the UK; leading to major policy changes
and realignments in the party-political system. This book considers
from an historical perspective the democratic device that provided
the focus for this upheaval. Beginning in the late nineteenth
century, it discusses how the idea of using referendums to resolve
major political disputes first came onto the agenda, and why. It
considers who advocated it, and in what circumstances. The book
describes how referendums eventually came into use from the 1970s
onwards, and the different patterns in their deployment in the
decades that have followed. Major political figures, from Herbert
Henry Asquith and Winston Churchill to Clement Attlee, Harold
Wilson and Margaret Thatcher; to Tony Blair, David Cameron, and
Boris Johnson form part of the story. Governments have come to
power and fallen in the context of demands for referendums or the
results they produced. The authors provide detailed accounts of
each of the 13 major referendums that have taken place. Referendums
took place at UK and sub-UK level. They were held on the position
of Northern Ireland (1973) and Scotland (2014) within the UK; on
devolution to Wales (1979; 1997; 2011) and Scotland (1979; 1979);
on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998); on devolution to
London (1998) and North East England (2004); on the parliamentary
voting system (2011); and on UK participation in European
integration (1975; 1975). The book provides a constitutional and
international perspective, and ask how far the original ideas lying
behind the referendum were fulfilled in practice.
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