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The Perils of Community as a Construct for the Political Ideology of Welsh Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Laura McAllister
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THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONCEPT of community and the incremental construction of a political ideology for Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. In explaining the two general applications of community, empirical and evaluative, the article claims that there is an essential vagueness attached to community which limits its value in developing a clear ideological focus for a political party. This incoherence within the concept, coupled with a specific reluctance to analyse and apply community more precisely within the framework of Welsh nationalism, has made it more a hindrance than an asset to Plaid Cymru's political and electoral progress.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 497 - 518
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1998

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