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Richard Bellamy

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Writes and researches legal and political theory & sometimes Italian history. Edits Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. Flutes, runs, reads, cooks, swims, snaps, goes to concerts, galleries, plays & films. Lives London-Exeter-Berlin-Livorno .. more

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Richard Bellamy 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. Bellamy won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009 for his book Political Constitutionalism: a Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy. 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, philosophy or music, literature, art, or economics.' 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. .. more

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King

UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception.

Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: Launch Event

This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 13d

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Book Launch for The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

Organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 13d

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Hybrid | The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: Launch Event

This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 16d

The UCL Global Centre for Constitutional Democracy at UCL is delighted to announce an event to launch The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory at UCL on 13 October 2025, 6:05 pm–8:00 pm All welcome.

Details here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

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The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: Launch Event

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 22d

New Book - Defending the Political Constitution - coming soon ....

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 24d

Wtf?! Barbaric

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24d

House lawmakers voted to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults and to treat young people more harshly in the D.C. justice system — fulfilling a top request from the Trump administration despite universal opposition among top D.C. elected officials.

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults

The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24d

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults

The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 3

Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi review – love, war and betrayal

Troubled by a photo of her grandmother living it up in Mussolini’s Italy, the author of Free delves into archive and memory to uncover the truth

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Aug 30

It was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 28

Opinion: The past decade was a masterclass in how to misread a nation. If Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to gift Britain to Reform, he needs to prove fast that he can be tough and effective on immigration on.ft.com/47dejup

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Orlando Lazar @orlandolazar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have a new paper out online in @crispp.bsky.social: I argue that a focus on domination can help us better understand a renewed politics of working time - a reduction in work, the right to disconnect, and challenging employer authority over free time.

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Taking it home with you: work, free time, and domination: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 0, No 0

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 13

I discuss its themes - in some ways part of a new book project - with Alan Renwick at: uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/sho...

Should Politicians Always Be Truthful? | UCL Uncovering Politics

This week we ask if politicians should always be truthful? It often feels like many politicians themselves think not. But what does a healthy democracy demand?

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation - Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, 2025

It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even jus...

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excellent piece

Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 5

Manu Chao rocking Livorno

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Jul 28

CRISPP 28.5 is now on line. A special Issue on Democratic Ethics and Voting edited by Annabelle Lever & Attila Mráz
– many articles open access – available at:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · Nov 16

One of the reasons I like @nescio13.bsky.social’s commentaries *so much* is that he’s been thinking about the same things I think about—here, Adam Smith, Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Cobden, L. T. Hobhouse, and Donald Trump—and is so efficient at pulling it together into a compelling synthesis.

A Post-Mortem, a week later

To set up today’s post — which is a tale that is not knowingly false — I divide artificially the broad liberal tent of our age.+ A left leaning primarily republican-shaped liberalism is a warm partisa...

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Nov 22

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 7 (2024) is now on line.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

Table of Contents

The elitist defence of democracy against populists using education and money
Tore Vincents Olsen
Pages: 1011-1031

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volume 27, Issue 7 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Daniel Butt @danieljamesbutt.bsky.social · Jan 9

Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social rocking the (literal!) after-dinner slot at @biapt.bsky.social #BIAPT2025

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 20

Donald Trump meme coin price tanks after wife Melania also launches token

The president-elect’s $Trump coin more than halved in value before steadily recovering on Sunday * Business live – latest updates The incoming US first lady, Melania Trump, has followed Donald Trump’s lead by launching a multibillion-dollar…

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Jan 28

Special Issue on Justice for Denizens, edited by Johan Olsthoorn is now on line, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: (2025) Vol 28, No 1

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Justice for Denizens. Volume 28, Issue 1 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Jan 28

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Justice for Denizens. Volume 28, Issue 1 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Jan 28

The winner of the 2024 CRISPP Essay Prize, for the best essay in a normal issue published in Vol 26 (2023), goes to Edmund Tweedy Flanigan, 'From self-defense to violent protest' CRISPP, 26(7) (2023), 1094-1118

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CRISPP Essay Prize

Explore the article collection: CRISPP Essay Prize. Published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 3

New post just out:

"Terminal Decline"

My review of a dramatic set of elections and what it means for all of the parties.

(£/free trial)

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Terminal Decline

Local Elections Review: 2025

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 31

The latest issue of CRISPP is now online:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... - Muldoon on digital socialism,Thompson and Modood on religious recognition, Goodin on excuses, Althorpe on Meaningful work, Eskelinen on global justice, Perez on Data based radicalism and more ....

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volume 28, Issue 4 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pleased that my exchange on Paul Tucker's stimulating Global Discord in now available OA on @crispp.bsky.social
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and reply:
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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congratulations!

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2

Cover of the most recent issue (2/2025) of the Journal of International Political Theory.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Jul 6

Drones reportedly attack Russia's Black Sea fleet; pipelines supplying Russian military explode in Russia's Far East, HUR source says; and more.

Ukraine war latest: Drones attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet; Russian pipelines explode in country's Far East, HUR says

Key developments on July 5-6: * Drones reportedly attack Russia's Black Sea fleet * Pipelines supplying Russian military explode in Russia's Far East, HUR source says * Ukrainian drone strike on R...

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