The referendum in Britain a history / Lucy Atkinson, Andrew Blick, and Matt Qvortrup.

Partial contents Introduction -- Emergent democracy : the period up to 1945 -- Pressure and experimentation : 1945-1979 -- Reform and Europe : the period since 1979 -- Conclusion -- Appendix : major referendums in the UK, 1973-2014.
Abstract This book places the European Referendum of 2016 into a historical context that began in the late nineteenth century through to the present day. It provides a constitutional and international perspective, and ask how far the original ideas lying behind the referendum were fulfilled in practice.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020946667
ISBN9780198823612 (hardcover)
ISBN0198823614 (hardcover)