Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "The strength of this book is its nuanced examination of the promotion, reception, and use of political referenda to show how, though once skeptically viewed, they became commonly accepted as a part of British democratic practice." -- M. J. Moore, CHOICE