LABORDE, Cecile <br/><br/>
From constitutional to civic patriotism 

 -  2002 
<br/><br/> Constitutional patriotism is an influential attempt to reconcile the conflicting imperatives of political legitimacy and cultural inclusiveness. However, it underestimates the role of particularist political cultures in grouding universalistic principles of democracy and justice. Civic patriotism, by constrast, emphasizes the motivational prerequisites of democratic governance, stress the need to preserve existing `co-operative ventures' such as nation-states, and demands that existing political cultures be democratically scrutinized and re-shaped n an inclusive direction. It promotes a mainly political identity, whose political content makes in compatible with a variety of practices and beliefs, but whose thin particularistic form justifies citizens commitment to specific institutions. This commitment is noit so unconditional as to justify citizens' commitment to specific institutions. This commitment is not so unconditional as to justify blind loyalty to one's own instituions, nor is it so absolute as to rule out certain forms of cosmopolitan citizenship