Health as an independent predictor of the 2017 French presidential voting behaviour: a cross-sectional analysis by Jean-David Zeitoun, Matthieu Faron, Sophie de Vaugrigneuse, Jérémie H. Lefèvre

“…Abstract Background It has been suggested that poor health has influenced vote for Brexit and the US presidential election. No such research has been published regarding the 2017 French presidential election. …”
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The Limits of EUropean Legitimacy: On Populism and Technocracy. Introduction to the Special Issue by Russell Foster, Jan Grzymski, Monika Brusenbauch Meislová

“…The special issue was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions of the EU’s legitimacy in the aftermath of structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt and the election and appointment of governing agents) and spontaneous crises (migration, external state and non-state security challenges, Brexit and Euroscepticism). Since the special issue’s conception the unanticipated Covid-19 pandemic, and responses from the EU and its member states (current and former) starkly illuminated debates on how the EU should operate, the limits of its power and the limits of its popular legitimacy. …”
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Northern Populism: Causes and Consequences of the New Ordered Outlook by Frank Graves, Jeff Smith

“…There is clear evidence in the international literature that this force has been a critical factor in explaining the rise of Donald Trump in America, Brexit in the United Kingdom and similar examples in other advanced western democracies. …”
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European Federation for Exploratory Medicines Development Lyon Conference 2019: The Changing Landscape of Early Medicines Development—Be Prepared by Tim Hardman, Henri Caplain, Sylvie Rottey, Desiree Douglas, Steffan Stringer, Hildegard Sourgens

“…The second day of the conference focused on future regulatory challenges in the field of early clinical development (including Brexit) and how to prepare for changes in the landscape. …”
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How does South Africa's real estate investment trusts integrate with major global REITs markets? A time-frequency approach by Kola Ijasan, Peterson Owusu Junior, George Tweneboah, Anokye M. Adam

“…Further, no evidence of contagion was found in the markets post-Brexit since we observe no discernible long stretches of high-frequency coherencies after June 2016.…”
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Governing a Pandemic with Data on the Contactless Path to AI: Personal Data, Public Health, and the Digital Divide in South Korea, Europe and the United States in Tracking of COVID... by June Park

“…This article attempts at examining the institutional variance in digital tool deployment to contact trace COVID-19 across six different democratic systems: South Korea, Europe (Germany, France, Italy and the UK post-Brexit) and the U.S. It aims at projecting varied country strategies in embracing the digital economy of the future driven by artificial intelligence (AI) as the contactless economy becomes the norm. …”
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COVID-19 and the “Film Your Hospital” Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data by Ahmed, Wasim, López Seguí, Francesc, Vidal-Alaball, Josep, Katz, Matthew S

“…ResultsThe most important drivers of the conspiracy theory are ordinary citizens; one of the most influential accounts is a Brexit supporter. We found that YouTube was the information source most linked to by users. …”
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The political system of European Union after European Parliament Election of 2019 by Andrii Martynov

“…European federalists in the “European People’s Party” and “European Socialists and Democrats” consider the strategic prospect of creating a confederate “United States of Europe”. The Brexit withdrawal from the EU could help the federalists win over European skeptics. …”
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Spillovers and contagion between BRIC and G7 markets: New evidence from time-frequency analysis by Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Peterson Owusu Junior, Ahmed Bossman, Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Oliver Asiamah, Anokye Mohammed Adam

“…However, we reveal contagious spillovers between the BRIC and G7 economies across all time scales in 2017 and 2019, which respectively reflect the persistent effect of Brexit and the US-China trade tension. Our findings divulge that in the short-term (mid-to-long-term), France and the UK (Canada and the US), are the sources of contagion between the BRIC and G7 markets. …”
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Posverdad y comunicación 2.0 by Almudena Barrientos-Báez, Mario Barquero Cabrero, Enrique García García

“…Como término y como realidad, tiene una importancia cada vez mayor en nuestras vidas: desde la elección de Trump y el Brexit hasta la crisis catalana… es casi fútil dar ejemplos concretos: basta abrir twitter cada mañana y, por moda estadística, habrá un bulo circulando, en el timeline del observador o siendo comentado o compartido por alguno de sus contactos. …”
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DYNAMICS OF UKRAINIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGES IN GERMAN POLITICS by Valeriy Kravchenko, Iryna Stasiukevych

“…The changes in the Euro-Atlantic region are mentioned separately, namely the issue of defence spending of Germany in the framework of NATO and the consequences of Brexit. In the context of the mentioned elements of German politics, several challenges for Ukraine, that may significantly weaken its position in the international arena, are determined. …”
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Affective vision: urban landscape photographs and their paratexts by Soto Gutiérrez, A

“…The second, A Certain Logic of Expectations, is a psychogeographical exploration of Oxford that seeks to capture the current cultural moment of Brexit. These works share a view of everyday life as a complex matrix of interconnected events that can reveal some of the social, historical, and political idiosyncrasies of the urban environment through the combination of images and texts. …”

Urbanitat postnacional més enllà de l’estat (pluri)nacio(nal) en la UE: comparant Escòcia, Catalunya i el País Basc by Calzada, I

“…Since the referendum on Scottish independence, depending on its unique context, each case has engaged differently in democratic and deliberative experimentation on the «right to decide» its future beyond its referential (pluri)nation(al)- states in the UK and Spain. Most recently, the Brexit referendum has triggered a deeper debate on how regional and political demands by these cases could re-scale the fixed (pluri)nation(al)-states’ structures while even directly advocating for some sort of «Europeanization». …”

Essays on foreign direct investment and international trade by Kett, B

“…Chapter 1 specifically studies the impact of the Brexit referendum on labour demand, with the emphasis placed on potential future trade barriers between the UK and European Union. …”

Meditative practices - correlates and consequences for political attitudes by Simonsson, O

“…The results from the second empirical chapter suggest that fifteen per cent of adults in Britain in 2018 had learnt to practise mindfulness and awareness of mindfulness was more likely among women, unmarried adults, adults from middle and high-income households, and adults who voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit Referendum; and higher levels of engagement with mindfulness was more likely among young and middle-aged adults, but otherwise not concentrated in any particular groups.…”

Essays on empathy and political behaviour by Schaffner, FS

“…In Chapter 3, I study if empathic ability reduces the divisions after the Brexit referendum using survey data. I find that empathic ability contributes to affective polarization by producing stronger ingroup identification, more hostility towards the outgroup, and more severe evaluative biases. …”

Post-national urbanity beyond (pluri)nation(al) states in the EU: Benchmarking Scotland, Catalonia, and the Basque Country by Calzada, I

“…Since the referendum on Scottish independence, depending on its unique context, each case has engaged differently in democratic and deliberative experimentation on the ‘right to decide’ its future beyond its referential (pluri)nation(al) states in the UK and Spain. Most recently, the Brexit referendum has triggered a deeper debate on how the regional and political demands of these entities could rescale the static nature of these (pluri)nation(al) state structures, and even directly advocate for some sort of ‘Europeanisation’. …”

Urbanidad postnacional más allá de los estados (pluri)nacion(ales) en la UE: comparación de Escocia, Cataluña y el País Vasco by Calzada, I

“…Since the referendum on Scottish independence, depending on its unique context, each case has engaged differently in democratic and deliberative experimentation on the «right to decide» its future beyond its referential (pluri)nation(al)-states in the UK and Spain. Most recently, the Brexit referendum has triggered a deeper debate on how regional and political demands by these cases could re-scale the fixed (pluri)nation(al)-states’ structures while even directly advocating for some sort of «Europeanization». …”

The strategic national infrastructure assessment of digital communications by Oughton, E, Frias, Z, Dohler, M, Whalley, J, Sicker, D, Hall, J, Crowcroft, J, Cleevely, D

“…Shared issues affecting the wider digital ecosystem are also identified including Brexit, connecting remote areas and the degree to which the economics of infrastructure allows for building multiple overlapping infrastructures. …”

¡Europa!, a pesar de todo. Una estrategia realista by Consejo de Redacción

“…L événement marquant du «brexit» a provoqué une prise de conscience des Européens. …”
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