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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/910
No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit.pdf
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No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit


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Authors: Schmidt, Susanne K.  
Abstract: 
The abundant literature on the UK’s Brexit-decision has focused on explaining the politicization and preference formation leading up to the referendum. But the institutional background has received much less attention. I argue that as a common-law country with a tradition of parliamentary sover-eignty, the UK exhibits institutional features that pose a significant mismatch to the prevailing policy-making mode in the European Union. The latter relies heavily on the constitutionalization of the EU-Treaties with the four freedoms, competition law, and citizenship rights, and accords an extraordi-nary role to the European Court of Justice in policymaking. Constitutionalized European rules regarding freedom of movement and EU citizens’ access to the welfare state drove the politicization of EU-membership in the UK. To understand why ‘taking back control’ found such resonance, it is im-portant to reflect the core features of the UK polity.
Keywords: Brexit; EU citizenship; parliamentary sovereignty; European Court of Justice; free movement; over-constituzionalization
Issue Date: 1-Mar-2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Journal/Edited collection: Journal of European Public Policy 
Start page: 779
End page: 794
Note: 5
Band: 27
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1350-1763
DOI: 10.26092/elib/910
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib51135
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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