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State Devolution and National Identity: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Welshness and Britishness in Wales

J Bradbury, R Andrews, Jonathan Bradbury Orcid Logo

Parliamentary Affairs, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 229 - 249

Swansea University Author: Jonathan Bradbury Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/pa/gsp029

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The articles addresses the relative neglect in the literature on comparative national identity of the study of national identity in Wales since devolution. The article assesses a range of quantitative and qualitative data on the extent, characteristics and implications of Welshness and Britishness i...

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Published in: Parliamentary Affairs
ISSN: 0031-2290
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
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