Richard Bellamy
University College London
Richard’s research combines intellectual history, analytical legal and political philosophy and comparative politics. His publications range from historical studies of post-1700 Italian political thought and European liberalism (1830-1950), through works on political commitment and ethics, to a republican account of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism, which he has applied to the UK and the EU.
Richard has written 10 monographs, edited or co-edited more than 30 books and special issues and is the author of more than 50 articles in specialised journals and more than 100 short articles and book chapters. He has also edited academic editions of works by Beccaria, Bobbio and Gramsci. His publications have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Richard’s research into Italian political thought was recognised with the award of the Serena Medal by the British Academy in 2012. His book Political Constitutionalism won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009. He has also been a leading figure in the normative study of the European Union and has directed and participated in several Leverhulme, ESRC and European Commission research projects in this area. His article, co-authored with Sandra Kröger, “Beyond a constraining dissensus: The role of national parliaments in domesticating and normalising the politicisation of European integration” (Comparative European Politics [2016] 14.2: 131-153) won the 2016 PADEMIA Research Award (journal article category) for “Outstanding Research on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe”.
Richard’s most recent monograph is A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. A collection of 20 articles on this topic, written over the last 25 years with Dario Castiglione, was also published in 2019 by Rowman and Littlefield, entitled From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU.
He is currently finalising a book on the Democratic Constitution for Oxford University Press and developing a study on Political Leadership provisionally entitled The Democratic Prince. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Constitutional Theory with Jeff King and The Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought with Terry Ball.