*Democràcia federalista i ciutadania universalista, concreta i arrelada, en l’obra de Denis de Rougemont

The integral federalism of Denis de Rougemont is seen as a global conception of the public relations, from the separation between civil society and State. With an extensive sense of politics, it includes a public social dimension and a public state dimension in a complementary way. Therefore, this political and federalist philosophy, that comes from the personalism and the Helvetian inspiration, is defined as a “cooperative contractualism”, which has its historical roots in the democratizing and libertarian tradition of the modernity. As a consequence, a sustantive democracy is outlined, which overcomes the formal democratic model of traditional liberalism. It is a complementary interaction between a liberal representative democracy and a participatory democracy. This fact produces a major division and distribution of the powers, and a diffusion of initiatives and controls, beyond the vertical institutions of the State, towards a civil society with a horizontal structure.