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Symposium Introduction: The Paradox of Structure: The UK State, Society and ‘Brexit’

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Ostensibly motivated by ‘taking back control’, is Brexit an opportunity to enhance the UK's capacity for self‐government? If driven by an aspiration to maximise the central state's governing autonomy, it confronts a paradox: governance structures at once enable action and constrain it. Exploring this paradox of structure, this article sets Brexit in long‐term perspective. As well as reshaping its external relations, Brexit inevitably unsettles the UK's internal structures, not least in (partly) disentangling he UK state and organised civil society from EU institutions and processes. Equally, those internal structures were themselves rarely static. Brexit has complicated the processes of their flux. The article introduces a symposium which addresses issues of this kind in three important domains: feminist civil society organisations (Minto), Westminster's role and scrutiny of European affairs (Cygan, Lynch and Whitaker) and the legal rights and access to justice of EU migrants under English law (Barnard and Fraser Burton).

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  • Daniel Wincott, 2020. "Symposium Introduction: The Paradox of Structure: The UK State, Society and ‘Brexit’," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(6), pages 1578-1586, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:58:y:2020:i:6:p:1578-1586
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13109
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    1. Paul James Cardwell, 2019. "The End of Exceptionalism and a Strengthening of Coherence? Law and Legal Integration in the EU Post‐Brexit," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(6), pages 1407-1418, November.
    2. Philomena Murray & Alex Brianson, 2019. "Rethinking Britain's Role in a Differentiated Europe after Brexit: A Comparative Regionalism Perspective," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(6), pages 1431-1442, November.
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    1. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, 2023. "In Quest for Discursive Legitimation of Ongoing Policy Processes: Constructing Brexit as a Success Story," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(3), pages 815-833, May.

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