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The Three Meaningful Votes: Voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons

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dc.contributor.authorAidt, T.
dc.contributor.authorGrey, F.
dc.contributor.authorSavu, A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-17T09:00:10Z
dc.date.available2019-09-17T09:00:10Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-19
dc.description.abstractWhy do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? To address this question, we leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative government had reached with the European Union. The bill was decisively defeated three times due to a major revolt amongst Conservative backbench Members of Parliament (MPs). We find that three factors influenced their rebellion calculus: the MP’s own ideological views, constituency preferences and career concerns. Somewhat paradoxically, the rebellion within the Conservative Party came from MPs who had supported Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum and from MPs elected in Leave leaning constituencies.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.43926
dc.identifier.otherCWPE1979
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/296884
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFaculty of Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCambridge Working Papers in Economics
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/
dc.subjectBREXIT
dc.subjectroll call votes
dc.subjectrebellions
dc.subjectparty discipline
dc.subjectparty coherence
dc.subjectHouse of Commons
dc.titleThe Three Meaningful Votes: Voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons
dc.typeWorking Paper
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