Looking back to look forward: 40 years of referendum debate in Britain

Citation

Glencross A (2015) Looking back to look forward: 40 years of referendum debate in Britain. Political Insight, 6 (1), pp. 25-27. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-9066.12085/abstract; https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-9066.12085

Abstract
Calls for a referendum on European Union membership have dominated UK politics in recent years. Andrew Glencross looks back at the only previous vote on Britain's relationship with Europe, in 1975, and finds plenty of similarities with the present day, and some stark differences, too.

Keywords
Brexit; referendum; EU; EEC referendum

Journal
Political Insight: Volume 6, Issue 1