Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College, London (UCL).
Richard was educated at the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute in Florence. After three years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford he went on to lectureships at Cambridge and Edinburgh and then to Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia, Reading, Essex and UCL. At UCL he was the founding Head of the new Department of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy from 2005- 2010 and founding Director of UCL’s European Institute from 2010-2013.
Richard has held Visiting Fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford; the EUI in Florence; Australia National University (ANU); the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo; and the Hanse Wissenschaft-Kolleg in Delmenhorst. From 2014-2019 he was Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI in Florence. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, at the EUI and at the Hertie School in Berlin, where he is now a Senior Fellow.
Richard was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2008, of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2024. He was awarded the Spitz prize for Political Constitutionalism in 2009 and the British Academy's Serena Medal for ‘eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art and economics’ in 2012.
Richard was Academic Director of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) from 2002-2006 and Founding Chair of the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought from 2008-2013. He was a member of the 2014 REF Panel for Politics and International Relations.
Richard is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Modern Italy, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, and Global Constitutionalism. He was an associate editor of the European Political Science Review and the European Journal of Political Theory and on the editorial boards of European Political Science, Government and Opposition, Modern Intellectual History, and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He co-edits the journal CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy).
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Richard’s main research interests are in European Social and Political Theory post-1750, Contemporary Analytical Legal and Political Philosophy, Public Ethics, and the application of normative theory to the understanding of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in modern societies. Richard was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2012-2014 for a book project on `A Republic of European States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU’, which has now been published by Cambridge University Press.
He has written 11 monographs to date, edited or co-edited a further 25 volumes and is the author of over a 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited scholarly editions of works by Beccaria, Bobbio and Gramsci. His publications have been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
He is currently working on a book on Defending the Political Constitution for Oxford University Press and a study of Political Leadership provisionally titled The Democratic Prince. He is also co-editing the Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory with Jeff King of UCL, and the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought with Terry Ball of ASU.
Supervisors: Duncan Forbes; Paul Ginsborg; and Quentin Skinner
Richard was educated at the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute in Florence. After three years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford he went on to lectureships at Cambridge and Edinburgh and then to Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia, Reading, Essex and UCL. At UCL he was the founding Head of the new Department of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy from 2005- 2010 and founding Director of UCL’s European Institute from 2010-2013.
Richard has held Visiting Fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford; the EUI in Florence; Australia National University (ANU); the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo; and the Hanse Wissenschaft-Kolleg in Delmenhorst. From 2014-2019 he was Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI in Florence. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, at the EUI and at the Hertie School in Berlin, where he is now a Senior Fellow.
Richard was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2008, of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2024. He was awarded the Spitz prize for Political Constitutionalism in 2009 and the British Academy's Serena Medal for ‘eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art and economics’ in 2012.
Richard was Academic Director of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) from 2002-2006 and Founding Chair of the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought from 2008-2013. He was a member of the 2014 REF Panel for Politics and International Relations.
Richard is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Modern Italy, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, and Global Constitutionalism. He was an associate editor of the European Political Science Review and the European Journal of Political Theory and on the editorial boards of European Political Science, Government and Opposition, Modern Intellectual History, and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He co-edits the journal CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy).
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/current
Richard’s main research interests are in European Social and Political Theory post-1750, Contemporary Analytical Legal and Political Philosophy, Public Ethics, and the application of normative theory to the understanding of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in modern societies. Richard was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2012-2014 for a book project on `A Republic of European States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU’, which has now been published by Cambridge University Press.
He has written 11 monographs to date, edited or co-edited a further 25 volumes and is the author of over a 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited scholarly editions of works by Beccaria, Bobbio and Gramsci. His publications have been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
He is currently working on a book on Defending the Political Constitution for Oxford University Press and a study of Political Leadership provisionally titled The Democratic Prince. He is also co-editing the Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory with Jeff King of UCL, and the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought with Terry Ball of ASU.
Supervisors: Duncan Forbes; Paul Ginsborg; and Quentin Skinner
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legal entity and having particular sorts of rights and obligations within it. This core understanding of citizenship goes back to
classical times and coalesced around two broad understandings of citizenship stemming from ancient Greece and Imperial
Rome respectively that later evolved into what came to be termed the ‘republican’ and ‘liberal’ accounts of citizenship. This
article first examines these two classic views, then looks at how they changed during the Renaissance and Reformation, and
finally turns to the ways the two were to some extent brought together following the American and French Revolutions within
the liberal democratic nation-state.
legal entity and having particular sorts of rights and obligations within it. This core understanding of citizenship goes back to
classical times and coalesced around two broad understandings of citizenship stemming from ancient Greece and Imperial
Rome respectively that later evolved into what came to be termed the ‘republican’ and ‘liberal’ accounts of citizenship. This
article first examines these two classic views, then looks at how they changed during the Renaissance and Reformation, and
finally turns to the ways the two were to some extent brought together following the American and French Revolutions within
the liberal democratic nation-state.
Among the thinkers discussed are Cesare Beccaria, Antonio Genovesi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca and Norberto Bobbio.
‘In advancing the tantalising claims that the Italians invented modern politics as well as one of the most important political traditions we have for understanding it, this book is sure to entice and provoke. Richard Bellamy shows how the diverse titular thinkers thought through problems of force and consent, morality and utility, mass movements and democracy, the social role of critical intellectuals, and the critical and utopian dimensions of liberalism and socialism. An important book by one of our most sophisticated observers of contemporary politics.’
Walter L Adamson
Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University
‘This is a brilliant and much-needed book on the history of political ideas in modern Italy. An excellent text both for students of Italy’s political thought, and for scholars of democratic theory.’
Nadia Urbinati
Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
‘Admirably combining conceptual and historical analysis, these essays offer imaginative interpretations of important Italian thinkers, and remind us that Bellamy’s world-class contribution in this field has been inspired by his sustained engagement with the premises and principles of liberalism. While specialists in Italian thought will be grateful to ECPR Press for gathering these essays in a single volume, Bellamy’s clear, elegant arguments will interest all students of political theory.’
Joseph V Femia
Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Liverpool
originator of fascist doctrine, the guiding spirit of liberty under Mussolini and the midwife of Italian communism.3 More recently, the historicist form he gave his thought, stemming as it does from Hegelian idealism, has come to be regarded as the very antithesis of the liberalism that he espoused. A better understanding
of Croce's conception of philosophy and its relation to politics
would therefore seem to be called for if some sense is to be made of these discordant images of his role in the ideological debates of modern Italy.