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(en) There is an established connection between neoliberal British austerity welfare reforms that began in 2010 and British citizens’ dissatisfaction with the EU leading up to Brexit. However, scholars have yet to analyze how British citizens delegitimated the EU in the context of Brexit or if these delegitimations were linked to neoliberal EU integration policy. Using abduction, we responded to these two gaps through a longitudinal qualitative investigation of Euroscepticism in the UK from 2005 until the months following Brexit in 2016. We discovered the existence of a moral economy of Euroscepticism that was a hybrid of neoliberal and nationalist ideology. Our study provides evidence that British citizens’ delegitimations of the EU—both pre-and post-Brexit—stemmed from this hybrid moral economy. Furthermore, building on the “normative policy feedback” literature, we found that the illegitimacy of the EU–and the legitimacy of Brexit–among British citizens stemmed partially from neoliberal policy reforms.
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Vila-Henninger, L. A., Caprioli, M. U., & Van Ingelgom, V. (2020). Moral economies of Euroscepticism: A qualitative diachronic study. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219394