The Referendum in Britain A History

by Atkinson, Lucy; Blick, Andrew; Qvortrup, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780198823612
• ISBN10: 0198823614
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrew Blick, Reader in Politics and Contemporary History and Director of the Centre for British Politics and Government, King's College London,Lucy Atkinson, Senior Policy Advisor, HM Government,Matt Qvortrup, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Coventry University

Andrew Blick is Reader in Politics and Contemporary History and Director of the Centre for British Politics and Government, at King's College London. He has worked in Parliament and at No.10, Downing Street. In 2019, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and Open Society Foundations funded him in devising a 'Citizens' Convention on UK Democracy'. His publications include Electrified Democracy (CUP, 2019), Stretching the Constitution (Bloomsbury/Hart, 2019), and Butler's British Political Facts (co-edited with R. Mortimer, Palgrave, 2018).

Lucy Atkinson is a Senior Policy Adviser at HM Government. She previously worked as Research Fellow at The Constitution Society, Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Justice, Development Officer at Renaissance Foundation, and Researcher at Faiths Forum for London.

Matt Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Coventry University. Having received Oxford University Press' Law Prize 2012 for his research on referendums, he was awarded the BJPIR Prize by the Political Studies Association in 2013. Described by the BBC as 'the world's leading expert on referendums', Professor Qvortrup is editor of The European Political Science Review.