The correspondence of nation state and society to nowaday weaker than it was in the past. In this sense, economic globalization has called into question not only the role of the nation state , less and less capable of governing within its own borders, but also , in more general term the capacity of politics to intervene in the economy and regulate social conflict . Global capitalism has in fact breached the long standing his torical alliance among capitalism the welfare state and democracy 2004 . The shift from ..... economics - with the state playing an important role in governing the market to neoliberal capatalism implied a reduction of labor protection as well as workers' rights . To prevent hemorrhanges of capital , even left - wing government have espoused the liberal concepts of flexibilization of the workforce and cuts in social spending