Processi globali e nuovo ruolo dello Stato

Due to globalization processes, the nation-state is facing with the problem of re-examining its ability to create an order by making and guaranteeing the law as well as its capacity to canalize the economy according to the citizens’ choices. The use of globalized economic and juridical patterns by private individuals is a great leap forward in economics and personal freedom, considering that the state is continuously loosing its monitoring and checking ability. At the same time these individuals still live within the framework of the state and also acknowledge its power. Ironically, while trying to leave the state aside the citizens still look up for it to solve their everyday problems. The author investigates the reasons of the crisis in which a specific model of state, the Kelsenian and Keynesianan one, fell in recent years. Nevertheless the crisis of that model doesn't mean the loss of the possibility to manage economy and globalization processes. The nation-state remains the most important producer of a lot of services and its role in promoting the knowledge and technology innovation is still a central one. One of the most important roles of the nation-state in the global era is to pull down the barriers against global economy and to look for the efficiency and innovation of its infrastructures and bureaucratic machinery. In the light of the global changes it is important to rethink the idea that the production of law and institutions can only be legitimated by ballots, or at least that voting always represents the best solution. Other kinds of legitimating processes should instead be considered by contemporary political theory, for example considering how people make their political choices like consumers in the free market