Replication Data for: Brexit as an identity: Political identities and policy norms

The 2016 EU referendum in Britain gave rise to two new political identities which divided the electorate into ‘Remainers’ and ‘Leavers’. Yet little is known about how these new identities relate to policy attitudes. The literature on partisanship identifies policy group norms that allow partisans to settle on shared policy aims and provide cues about the ‘correct’ in-group policy choice. In this paper, we examine the extent to which these policy norms are also important for people with a Brexit identity. We show that Brexit identities are associated with specific policy preferences and that these group norms are relatively well-known to people. Using a survey-embedded experiment, we also demonstrate that providing policy cues to Brexit identity groups may encourage people to align their own preferences with their group’s preferences. These findings contribute to the growing literature on non-partisan political identities and their importance in shaping political attitudes and behavior.