http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201013-113459-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-ugly-german/ The Ugly German Miller, Russell A. eng 2020-10-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 German Law Hegemony Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The novel’s two ugly Americans provide useful models for two facets of hegemony as Gramsci theorized it. Hegemony, he insisted, is more than a state of cultural domination. It is better understood as a process of socio-historical change that takes place before power is institutionalized. The two drivers of the hegemonic process Gramsci theorized are consensus and coercion.