Richard BellamyFBAFAcSSMAE (born 15 June 1957) is a British political philosopher and Professor of Political Science at University College London. He is best known for his historical work on the Italian tradition of legal and political thought and his own writings in legal and political philosophy.[1][2][3][4]
Bellamy won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009 for his book Political Constitutionalism: a Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy.[5] In 2012 he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy, given 'for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics.'[6] Bellamy has been the lead editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) since 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2008, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2024.
Career
Bellamy read History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a ‘First’ in 1979. Afterwards, also at Cambridge, he did a PhD on ‘Liberalism and Historicism: History and Politics in the Thought of Benedetto Croce’ under the supervision of Quentin Skinner, during which time he spent two years as a researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 1980-82. He completed his PhD in 1983. After a year teaching at the University of Pisa from 1982-83, he went on to a Junior Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford from 1983-86, where he was Junior Dean from 1984-86, and started the Nuffield Workshop in Political Theory, giving the first paper on 'Sex, Sin and Liberalism'. He was also Lecturer in the House of Politics at Christ Church from 1984-86. He was a Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Jesus College, Cambridge and Lector in History at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1986-88. He left for a Lectureship in Politics at the University of Edinburgh from 1988-92, and then held Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia from 1992-95, Reading from 1995-2002, and Essex from 2002-05. He has been at University College London, where he set up the Political Science Department, since 2005.[7]
Bellamy has published 11 monographs, 30 (co-)edited volumes, over 90 journal articles and more than 80 book chapters. He has also edited translations of texts by Beccaria, Bobbio and Gramsci. His own writings have been translated into French, German, Arabic, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Chinese, Indonesian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Spanish.[8]
Books
Modern Italian Social Theory: Ideology and Politics from Pareto to the Present, John Wiley & Sons, 1991
Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument, John Wiley & Sons, 1992
Gramsci and the Italian State, with Darrow Schecter, Manchester Univ Press, 1993
Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise, Routledge, 1999
Rethinking Liberalism, Continuum, 2005
Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2008
Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2013
A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU, Cambridge University Press, 2019
From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU, with Dario Castiglione, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019
Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness and Democracy, with Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer, Bristol University Press, 2022
^Behan, Tom (April 1995). "Reviews : Richard Bellamy and Darrow Schecter, Gramsci and the Italian State, Manchester, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-719-03342-X, 1993; 203 pp.; £35.00". European History Quarterly. 25 (2): 314–316. doi:10.1177/026569149502500219. ISSN0265-6914.
^Di Scala, Spencer M. (October 1994). "Richard Bellamy and Darrow Schecter. Gramsci and the Italian State. New York: Manchester University Press. 1993. Pp. xvi, 203. $59.95". The American Historical Review. doi:10.1086/ahr/99.4.1356. ISSN1937-5239.
