1st Edition

Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain

By Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Stuart Fox Copyright 2021
138 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Religion has a significant effect on how Europeans feel about the European Union (EU) and has had an important impact on how people voted in the UK’s ‘Brexit referendum’. This book provides a clear and accessible quantitative study of how religion affects Euroscepticism and political behaviour. It examines how religion has affected support for EU membership since the UK joined the European... Read more

1. The missing link: religion and British politics  2. Theorising religion and Euroscepticism  3. Euroscepticism and religion before Brexit  4. Religion and the Brexit referendum  5. Untangling (in)direct effects of religion on Euroscepticism  6. Cushioning the blow: religion and party politics in the age of Brexit  7. Concluding thoughts

Biography

Ekaterina Kolpinskaya is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Exeter, UK.

Stuart Fox is Lecturer in British Politics at Brunel University London, UK.