Progressive home rule?
Progressive home rule?
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进步的家庭统治？
DOI：
10.1111/newe.12221
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发表时间：
2020
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Wyn Jones R
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Wyn Jones R
1999年成立了现在正式被称为塞内德（Senedd）或威尔士议会的议会，这是一个世纪的高潮，也是支持过去被称为（更令人高兴的是，我们不同意）“家庭规则”的争论的高潮。虽然在这段时间里，鼓动的强度时起时落，但有一个不变的事实是，支持权力下放的论点几乎完全与政治的进步方面有关。当然，并非所有威尔士的进步人士都支持权力下放。例如，尼尔·金诺克（Neil Kinnock）可能是1979年公投时最有效的反对者，他的观点似乎在此期间没有太大变化。但除了极少数例外，地方自治的倡导者往往是进步人士，他们都设想建立威尔士议会和政府，作为实现进步政治目标的一种手段。反映了威尔士社会和政治历史的特定轨迹如何以可能是最长时期的进步/进步的方式服务于国际民族和阶级叙事。中左翼的选举优势：一百五十年加和计数。然而，无论我们如何来到这里的故事多么有趣，考虑到进步价值观和威尔士权力下放之间的联系，现在似乎也是一个吉祥的时间来扩大视野，并询问威尔士以外的进步人士可以从过去二十年的经验中学到什么。
The establishment in 1999 of what is now formally known as the Senedd, or Welsh parliament, was the culmination of a century and more of argument in favour of what used to be known–more pleasingly, we suggest–as ‘home rule’. While the intensity of agitation ebbed and flowed over that extended period, one constant was that the arguments in favour of devolution were almost exclusively associated with the progressive side of politics. Not all progressives in Wales supported devolution, of course. Neil Kinnock, for example, was probably the most effective opponent at the time of the 1979 referendum, and his views do not appear to have shifted much in the interim. But with remarkably few exceptions, advocates of home rule have tended to be progressives who have all envisaged the establishment of a Welsh parliament and government as a means to progressive political ends.This, in turn, reflects the ways in which the particular trajectory of Welsh social and political history has served to intertwine national and class narratives in ways that have underpinned perhaps the longest period of progressive/centreleft electoral dominance ever seen: a hundred and fifty years plus and counting. Yet no matter how interesting the story of how we got here, given the umbilical link between progressive values and Welsh devolution, now also seems like an auspicious time to widen the optic and ask what lessons progressives outside Wales might learn from the experience of the past two decades.