Richard Bellamy is een vooraanstaand Brits politicoloog en historicus wiens werk zich diepgaand bezighoudt met de ontwikkeling van democratie, burgerschap en constitutionalisme in moderne samenlevingen. Zijn wetenschap, die vaak put uit de Italiaanse traditie van politiek denken, integreert vloeiend geschiedenis, politiek, recht en filosofie. Bellamy richt zich op de hedendaagse uitdagingen waarmee democratische systemen worden geconfronteerd, met name in Europa en in relatie tot de Europese Unie. Zijn uitgebreide academische bijdragen omvatten talrijke monografieën en bewerkte bundels die de huidige discussies over politieke systemen vormgeven.
Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.
Clear, balanced and accessible, this book explores the alternative of a flexible European Union (EU) based on differentiated rather than uniform integration. They examine the circumstances and institutional design needed for flexibility to promote rather than undermine fairness and democracy within and between member states.
This book brings together fifteen classic essays from a leading scholar, Richard Bellamy, who traces the history of Italian political thought from Cesare Beccaria to Norberto Bobbio. Written over the past twenty-five years, these works constitute the first account in English of the modern Italian political tradition. Bellamy pays special attention to the different ways various Italian theorists link politics and ethics and their alternate conceptions of state and democracy. Among the thinkers discussed are Cesare Beccaria, Antonio Genovesi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Norberto Bobbio.