Abstract
In the post‐war decades, Austrian national identity underwent a marked transformation. Increasingly, the wider German sense of self that traditionally predominated among German‐speaking Austrians lost ground to an exclusively Austrian one. This article analyzes quantifiable expressions of public identity to explore the extent of the changes in the Austrian sense of self. It does not develop a comprehensive picture of Austrian nation‐formation, but focuses distinctly on public perceptions of Austrian nationhood and on the internal tensions and contradictions they contain. The article examines the reflection of élite discourse in popular notions of identity and illuminates the difficulties that surround the measuring of contested identities.
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