About the Book: Constitutional Patriotism
A powerful rethinking of citizenship and democratic belonging for a global age
Constitutional Patriotism offers a bold theory of citizenship and civic
allegiance for todays culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting
conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner
Müller 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