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nationalist parties  

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  • Nationalist parties are those political parties whose chief basis of appeal and whose raison d'ĂȘtre is to promote the interests of and emotional attachment to a nation. A nation refers to an aggregate of people who have a sense of common identity and some shared values or cultural distinctiveness, as opposed to a state, which organizes the institutions for selecting decision makers and making decisions regarding public policy. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Nationalist Parties]

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