nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160616-103615 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160616s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160616-103615 doi eng 342 23 Walker, Neil Author aut The Brexit Vote: The Wrong Question for Britain and Europe Walker, Neil Verfassungsblog 2016-06-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Referendums are supposed to provide decisive interventions in the affairs of state. Yet the referendum theory is in fact deeply flawed. European ‘membership’ for a country of Britain’s size, influence and location should be less a matter of ‘yes or no’ than one of ‘more or less’. The reduction of a complex and graduated choice to a basic dichotomy simply does not reflect the position or serve the interests of the vast majority who will be affected by the outcome. What is more, and worse, the crude logic of either-or plebiscitary politics threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit Differentiated Membership Europe à la Carte Referendum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/walker-brexit-referendum/ raw object