Description
This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study, the rise and fall of the British policy for membership of European institutions. Drawing on post-structuralist discourse theory, it represents policy change as being about the establishment of British identity as a European Member State and the meaning of the country’s participation in the block in 1973 to their deterioration through the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, to their eventual failure at the 2016 referendum.. Considering the abject state into which the meaning and identity of the pro-European policy had fallen by that time, the book finds that while David Cameron might have lost his June referendum by a slender 1.8% majority, he should have lost by a whole lot more.. The book will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, public policy, British and European politics.
Book Information
ISBN 9783031651359
Author John S. F. Wright
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
