When I first tried to define the concerns of cultural policy studies in the first issue of Culture and Policy, I placed the stress on the relations between culture and government. In urging the need for a view of culture that would see 'the processes of government as being central to its constitution', I suggested that, looked at from a policy perspective, culture needed to be approached as 'a set of institutionally inscribed processes for shaping the attributes of populations, and particularly those of modem citizens, which, if not directly governmental, are in some way governmentally constituted and superintended' (Bennett 1989: 6).