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Sophie Williams
The advent of Welsh devolution has thrown questions around national identity and its politicisation into sharp relief, the causal links between the development of autonomous government and levels of self-identification as Welsh explored as never before. This article examines this phenomenon through analysis of the arguments of Bradbury and Andrews (2010, Parliamentary Affairs, 63, 229–249). It agrees with their argument that the politicisation of Welshness, rather than a sense of Welshness itself, has increased, but challenges their reasoning for this increased politicisation, arguing that, rather than resulting from a convergence on a sense of ‘civic Welshness’, new qualitative research, derived through the use of structured interviews and focus groups, suggests that the increased politicisation results from a conflation of national identity and party ideology.
