Ebook: Framing Risky Choices: Brexit and the Dynamics of High-Stakes Referendums

Why the British public voted - against all expectations and in the face of economic uncertainty - to leave the European Union, explained from a comparative perspective.

The majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or uncertainty. So why did the British public vote to take such a major economic risk? Framing Risky Choices addresses this question by placing the Brexit vote in the bigger picture of EU and Scottish independence referendums.