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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaey0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Britain Says Yes: The 1975 Referendum on the Common Market, by Anthony King, describes one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent British history. The British political tradition has always been one of government of the people, for the people, and with-but not by-the people. Britain has no history of direct democracy. Yet, on June 5, 1975, the British people went to the polls to decide the single issue of whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Community. This book explains how such a major constitutional innovation came about. It also explains the outcome of the referendum, which in some ways was even more remarkable. For nearly seven years prior to 1975, the opinion polls had reported that a large majority of the British people was hostile to Britain's Com- mon Market membership. Yet, when the day of decision came, the voters said yes to Europe, by a margin of two to one. The author accounts for this historic change of mind and assesses the meaning of the referendum-what it revealed about British attitudes toward Europe, and what it can tell us about the nature of British politics today. Anthony King, an adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, is professor of government at the University of Essex in England. He contributed to the earlier AEI volume, Britain at the Polls, and comments on elections for the London Observer and the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was until recently editor of the British Journal of Political Science. During 1977-1978 he is a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stan- ford, California. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ISBN 978-0-8447-3260-2 911 I3I 11 TAITI1 °° American Enterprise Institute Studies in Political and Social Processes BRITAI The 1975 Referendum on the Common Market Anthony King

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