@book{200096,
  author = {Jan-Werner M{\"u}ller},
  title = {Constitutional Patriotism},
  abstract = {<p><em>Constitutional Patriotism</em> offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today{\textquoteright}s culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner M{\"u}ller 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.<br><br><br>M{\"u}ller{\textquoteright}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 {\textquotedblleft}global human community.{\textquotedblright} In a more analytical part, he then proposes a critical conception of citizenship that makes room for dissent and civil disobedience while taking seriously a polity{\textquoteright}s need for stability over time. M{\"u}ller{\textquoteright}s theory of constitutional patriotism responds to the challenges of the de facto multiculturalism of today{\textquoteright}s states{\textemdash}with a number of concrete policy implications about immigration and the preconditions for citizenship clearly spelled out. And it asks what civic empowerment could mean in a globalizing world.</p>},
  year = {2007},
  publisher = {Princeton University Press},
  isbn = {9780691118598},
  url = {https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691118598/constitutional-patriotism},
  language = {eng},
}