caa a22 4500 388056630 CHVBK 20180307125108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0067237800014867 doi S0067237800014867 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0067237800014867 Gal Susan Political Culture and the Making of Tradition: A Comment [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Gal] For Decades, Scholars have claimed that "culture” is one important factor in shaping political processes. Individuals and groups hold fundamental values and expectations that contribute to the maintenance or collapse of democracy, nationalism, fascism, communism, and other political systems. Recently, however, the argument has been extended considerably: political culture and ritual, it is now claimed, are not simply the colorful, attitudinal, sometimes manipulative icing on the cake of the real interests and power relations that move history. More fundamentally, "interests,” "power,” "sovereignty,” the "people,” the "nation,” "tradition,” and even the "state” are being studied as ideological devices with logics, rhetorics, and effects specific to particular historical contexts. Political processes operate through such categories, which are culturally constructed and only appear to be unproblematic and self-evident. Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1998 Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 249-260 0067-2378 29:1<249 1998 29 AHY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237800014867 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237800014867 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gal Susan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press 29/1(1998-01), 249-260 0067-2378 29:1<249 1998 29 AHY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge