Nation, Heimat, Vaterland: The Reinvention of Concepts by the Bavarian CSU.

Focuses on the application of a post-modern theoretical framework to examine the ideological construction of the concepts of Nation, Heimat and Vaterland by the Christian Social Union party in Bavaria, Germany. Analysis of political conditions in Bavaria; Overview of the position of the political party within German and Bavarian politics; Discussion on discourse theory and its use to characterize the dynamics of the bid of the CSU for ideological hegemony in Bavaria.