Professor Richard Bellamy
UCL Faculty Member
Bio:
Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College London (UCL), University of London and a Senior Fellow of the Hertie School in Berlin. He is a Fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the British Academy (FBA) and a Member of the Academia Europea (MAE). His research ranges from historical studies of Italian political thought post 1700 and of European liberalism 1830-1950, through work on compromise and political ethics, to a republican account of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism, which he has applied to both the UK and the EU. The author of 11 monographs and over 150 articles, his publications include Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition (ECPR Press, 2014), for which he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy, Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, 1999), Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009, and A Republic of European States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU, (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His Defending the Political Constitution is forthcoming from Oxford University Press and The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (co-edited with Jeff King) is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Representative publications:
Latest Articles: Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation, Differentiated integration as a fair scheme of cooperation, Political Constitutionalism and Populism
Latest Chapters: Political Constitutionalism (Chapter 3) - The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom, Data Ethics: Normative Principles and Their Regulatory Challenges