Constitutional patriotism as a political-normative theory

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780083
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: Mahara Junji 三重大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (40399051)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 憲法パトリオティズム / リベラル・デモクラシー / 形式合理性 / 憲法文化 / 場の論理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I analyzed the character of constitutional patriotism as a political normative theory. As a result, I emphasized two points: first, constitutional patriotism is not a political moment that looks good only in paper, but a very pragmatic motive to make "constitutional culture (Verfassungskultur)" as a community which gradually realize liberal-democratic order; second, we can find strong points and difficult points of constitutional patriotism in comparison with liberal nationalism and deliberative democracy, in which we can recognize very debatable possibility and problematics of this political perspective.

Free Research Field

政治思想史