The conceptual 'peg' on which the volume hangs is that, irrespective of one's views on whether Britain's exit from the EU was a good or a bad thing, Brexit can justifiably be seen as yet another example of a British policy fiasco. Put simply, the British political elite was not at its best.

Jeremy Richardson is Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His most recent book is British Policy-making and The Need for a Post-BREXIT Policy Style, Palgrave, 2018. Previous titles include European Union. Power and policy-making, Fourth Edition, edited with Sonia Mazey, Routledge, and Constructing a Policy-Making State? Policy Dynamics in the EU (Ed.), 2012, Oxford University Press

Berthold Rittberger is Professor of International Politics at LMU Munich, Germany. His research focuses on EU integration, political representation and regulatory-policy-making

Introduction - Brexit: simply an omnishambles or a major policy fiasco?

Jeremy Richardson and Berthold Rittberger

1. Narrative genres of Brexit: the Leave campaign and the success of romance

Alexander Spencer and Kai Oppermann

2. Explanations for the Brexit policy fiasco: near-impossible challenge, leadership failure or Westminster pathology?

Allan McConnell and Simon Tormey

3. Can't get no learning: the Brexit fiasco through the lens of policy learning

Claire A. Dunlop, Scott James and Claudio M. Radaelli

4. Divided they fail: the politics of wedge issues and Brexit

Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Lisa Kriegmair, Berthold Rittberger and Bernhard Zangl

5. Political, process and programme failures in the Brexit fiasco: exploring the role of policy deception

Darrin Baines, Sharron Brewer and Adrian Kay

6. The Brexit car crash: using E.H. Carr to explain Britain's choice to leave the European Union in 2016

Justin O. Frosini and Mark F. Gilbert

7. No match made in heaven. Parliamentary sovereignty, EU over-constitutionalization and Brexit

Susanne K. Schmidt