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5. ‘A Pit We Have Dug Ourselves’: The EU Referendum and the Welsh Democratic Deficit

verfasst von : Simon Gwyn Roberts

Erschienen in: Reporting the Road to Brexit

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter argues that two related factors, both revolving around the wider media, provide some explanation for the apparently self-defeating Welsh 2016 EU referendum vote and its sharp contrast with Scotland: first, the fragmented cultural and political geography of Wales; second, the relative lack of pan-Welsh institutions beyond the National Assembly: in particular, the lack of independent English-language news media, meaning Welsh voters were almost entirely dependent on a combination of the BBC and the message from the London tabloids, which retain immense cultural and political traction over the border despite declining circulations.

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Metadaten
Titel
‘A Pit We Have Dug Ourselves’: The EU Referendum and the Welsh Democratic Deficit
verfasst von
Simon Gwyn Roberts
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_5