Post-Brexit Governance Norther Ireland: Testing the Temperature Opinion Polling Aggregate Data and Stakeholder Workshop Reports, 2021-2024

This collection documented how the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland placed Northern Ireland at the interface of UK and EU governance. Motivated by concerns about legitimacy, implementation challenges and policy uncertainty, particularly around the Protocol’s democratic consent mechanism, the study aimed to map and track the region’s emergent, ‘perched’ multilevel governance after Brexit. It assembled original qualitative and quantitative materials to describe how EU-aligned rules operated in NI despite its formal position outside the EU, and how this affected policy-making across UK, EU and devolved institutions.

The collection contains reports and datasets for: (a) 13 'Testing the Temperature' opinion polls on public attitudes to the Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland and related issues carried out by LucidTalk; (b) reports from nine stakeholder workshops.