Constitutional Patriotism

ISBN: 9780691118598 出版年：2009 页码：187 Muller, Jan-Werner Princeton University Press

Constitutional Patriotism" offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Muller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to thinking about political belonging and the preconditions of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation-state.; The book takes the development of the European Union as a case study, but its lessons apply also to the United States and other parts of the world. Muller's essay starts with an engaging historical account of the origins and spread of the concept of constitutional patriotism - the idea that political attachment ought to center on the norms and values of a liberal democratic constitution rather than a national culture or the "global human community.