In the 1970s-80s, Bracher published a series of essays calling for "constitutional patriotism" and a "post-national democracy" that redefined Deutschtum in terms of republican belonging to a democratic state and rejected the old definitions of the nation-state.
1970-80年代，布拉赫出版了一系列呼吁“宪政爱国主义”和“后民族民主主义”的论文重新定义Deutschtum为属于一个民主政权的共和主义者并反对民族政权的旧定义。