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This article explores the theoretical debate over how best to conceptualize the `civic nation' and its implications for minority inclusion. By examining the Czech government's treatment of the Roma minority according to a four-part measure of civic inclusiveness, it assesses the extent to which the regime's foundation on the `civic principle' has produced a political community that actually treats all citizens equally. The article thereby both critically assesses the claim that the use of the civic principle is inherently conducive to minority inclusion and civic equality and attempts to demonstrate that the term `civic' remains useful for analyzing and classifying types of community.

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