Brexit Flashcards
What is the narrative of brexit
Symptom of a crisis of democratic capitalism
Left behind groups
What is the free trade area
There are no tariffs or taxes or quotas on goods or services from one country entering another
What is the customs union
Agreement to integrate customs policies
What is the single market
Removal of taxes, tariffs and quotas on trade between countries allowing free movement of goods, services, capital and people
What is a monetary union
Deeper stage of economic integration, common monetary policy, common currency
What was behind the voting results of the EU
Age differences - generational difference - older individuals haven’t felt the eu has benefitted them Cultural element to the vote Educational split Rise of UKIP
What are some of the problems with the EU campaign
Difficult to identify what the remain campaign was
Leave campaign was stretching the boundaries of what was acceptable in communication
What was the role of the press
Anti immigrant
Bias for leave on majority
Why leave?
Crisis of capitalism
Parts of the uk not benefitting so much
Financial crash exposed vulnerabilities in system
Blamed Europe because there was a competition for resources
Austerity policies of coalition government
Action impacted regions reliant on support
What does Fiskin, 2011 argue
Project itself had an inbuilt democratic deficit
Not properly represented
Idea we lost sovereignty
Policies being made that didn’t include everyone
No forms of democracy the EU was perfect in
Deep divisions in Europe
What is elite deliberation
Slow a group of people to rule providing they do so in a rational way
What is participatory democracy
Participation in Europe at a distance
What is deliberative democracy
What we understand where all views of people count
Bakhtin carnival
The world is not fixed, a process of creation
Always the potential for things to break down
Carnival is something where norms can be inverted
Carnival is to flip everything - happened in brexit debate, see there might be an alternative to the EU
What does Bradford (2012) argue
The EU has unprecedented global power, exercises through its legal institutions and standards
The eu has a strong and growing ability to promulgate regulations that become entrenched in legal frameworks of developed and developing markets alike
Europeanisation effect
Other countries legislators adopt the EUs strict standards because the EU is the largest economy in the world
Producers often reliant on the Eu market and thus have to meet their standards
What does deacon (2016) identify about the press
On face value newspapers pro leave and remain seem relatively balanced but when circulation is considered a significant gulf opens
18% pro remain
82% leave
Most leave readerships of working class More newspaper readers exposed to Brexit messages
What are some further comments about carnival
Carnival is a profane celebration where the world is turned upside down
Carnival expresses the fear of life over fear of death
Carnival can be seen as a collective response to challenge power
During carnival rank is abolished and everyone is equal
Brief moment when life escapes its furrows and enacts utopian freedom
Creates a zone in which the new birth or emergence becomes possible against the sterility of dominant norms
What are some reasons for Brexit from seminars
Growing disparity between top and bottom earners Information asymmetry Resource allocation Social hosility Is there a democratic awakening
What does Swales identify
From the signing of the Maastricht treaty we have seen a real rise in euroscepticism
Spiked to above 60% after the financial crash of individuals who either wanted to leave entirely o remain and reduce the EUs power
What does Swales say about demographics
Most likely to cite leave were Those with no formal education (78%) Those with income less than 1,200 (66%) Those in social housing (68%) Sun, express mail readership likely to vote leave
What does Swales identify about policy issues
Issues cited as the most important were
The economy (21%)
Immigration (20%)
Sovereignty (17%)
People were less persuaded by the remain arguments about the economic risks of leaving than by the leave arguments around immigration
What are the 3 groups Swales identifies made up the Brexit vote
Economically deprived
Affluent eurosceptics
Older working class
What are the reasons the EU has a Europeanisation effect
Market power
- largest economy in the world (16 trillion gdp)
Regulatory Capacity
Preference for strict rules
Predisposition to regulate inelastic targets
No divisibility of standards
