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Professor of Political Science (he/him)
Room:Ìý3.15, 31 Tavistock Square
Email:Ìýr.bellamy@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

Richard Bellamy joined ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûin 2005 as the College’s first Professor of Political Science. He was the founding Head of the new Department of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy from 2005 toÌý2010. He was then Director of UCL’s European Institute, which he also established, from 2010 toÌý2013.

Richard was educated at the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. After three years as a postdoctoral 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, ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûand the EUI.Ìý

Richard has held Visiting Fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford; the EUI; Australia National University (ANU); the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo; and the Hanse Wissenschaft-Kolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst. He was Director of the Max Weber Post-doctoral Programme at the EUI from 2014 toÌý2019.ÌýHe was a at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin 2022-2023, where he continues to be a , and a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter 2012-2020.

Richard was Academic Director of the (ECPR) from 2002 toÌý2006, and is the department’s Official Representative of the ECPR, and Founding Chair of the from 2008 toÌý2013. He was a member of the 2014 REF Panel for Politics and International Relations. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) since 2002 and of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) since 2008.ÌýHe was elected a Fellow of the British Academy () in 2022Ìýand a Member of the Academia Europaea () in 2024.

Richard is on the editorial boards of theÌýBritishÌýJournalÌýof Politics and International Relations,ÌýGlobal Constitutionalism, theÌýEuropean Journal of Political Theory,ÌýRes Publica,ÌýJus Cogens,ÌýtheÌýEuropean LegacyÌýandÌýModern Italy, was an Associate Editor of theÌýEuropean Political Science Review,ÌýandÌýpreviously served on the boards ofÌýEuropean Political Science, Modern Intellectual History,ÌýGovernment and OppositionÌýand theÌýJournal of Modern Italian Studies.Ìý

HeÌýhas co-edited the journalÌý (Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy)Ìýsince 2001.

Research

Richard’s research combines intellectual history, analytical legal and political philosophy and comparative politics. His main research interests are in the history of European social and political theory post-1750 and contemporary analytical legal, social and political philosophy. He has a particular interest in public ethics, and the application of normative theory to the understanding of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in modern societies.

Richard has worked extensively on Italian political thought and in 2012 he was awarded theÌýÌýby the British Academy, given ‘for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics’. His work on constitutionalism culminated in his monographÌý,Ìýwhich won the 2009ÌýDavid and of the . He was a member of the International Panel for Social Progress (ISPP), and co-edited chapterÌý13 of their report on Rethinking Society for the 21^st Century on the ‘’.

Richard has been a leading figure in the normative study of the European Union and has directed and participated in a number of Leverhulme, ESRC and European Commission research projects in this area. His article,Ìýco-authored with SandraÌýKröger, ‘’,Ìýwon theÌýÌý2016 Research Award (journal article category) for ‘Outstanding ResearchÌýon Parliamentary Democracy in Europe’ that has ‘contributed substantially toÌýthe state of the art of research on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe, and/orÌýhas influenced academic and political debates on the topic’. He wasÌýa Work Package co-lead of the H2020 project InDivEU on .

Richard is currently completing a book on Defending the Political Constitution for Oxford University Press and developing a study of Political Leadership provisionally entitled The Democratic Prince. He is also co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Constitutional Theory with Jeff King in ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûLaws and The Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought with Carol Atack, Terry Ball, Chris Brooke and Leigh Jenco.

Publications

Richard’s publicationsÌýrange 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.ÌýHe has published 11Ìýmonographs to date, edited or co-edited a further 30 volumes and is the author of over 90 journal articles and 80 book chapters. He has also edited scholarly editions of works by , Bobbio and . His publications have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish. .

His books includeÌý;Ìý;Ìý(with Darrow Schecter)Ìý; ; ; : A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy; and ,Ìýand, as editor or co-editor,Ìý; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and .

His most recent monographs are ,Ìýpublished by ECPR Press in 2014, which bringsÌýtogether some of his key articles on Italian political thought; , Cambridge University Press, 2019, which develops a republicanÌýapproach to global political justice and applies it to the EU; and (with Dario Castiglione)Ìý, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, which collects 19 of their articles on the EU written over the past 25 years, along with a new Introduction and a substantive Epilogue on the current crises.

His latest book – ,Ìýwritten with Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer, was published by Bristol University Press in January 2022.

His latest edited volumes include the following four special issues: , ,Ìý, and .

You can download a number of Richard’s past, recent and draft papers from his , ,ÌýandÌýÌýauthor pages, orÌýviaÌýhisÌý. YouÌýcan find details of all Richard’s books on hisÌý. Further information on his publications can be found on his andÌýÌýpages.

You can watch various videos of lectures and interviews he has given relating to some of his publications on his Ìýpage.

Teaching

PhD students

Richard has successfully supervised 24 PhD students on topics relating to different areas of his research. He is open to supervising students interested in the history of European political thought post-1750 and topics in contemporary analytical legal and political philosophy –Ìýespecially on global ethics, republicanism, constitutionalism and democratic theory.ÌýPast thesis subjects of his PhD students have ranged from studies of Thomas Reid, T.ÌýH. Green, Hegel and Antonio Gramsci, to feminist theories of care and free speech, explorations of political liberalism and Irish nationalism, the implications of republican theory for global justice, normative accounts of the European Union, and various aspects of citizenship theory, democratic theory and constitutionalism.

MA/MSc and BA students

Richard teaches MA modules on Public EthicsÌýand Global Ethics, and an undergraduateÌýmodule on Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship.