Richard Bellamy  (born 15 June 1957) is a British philosopher and Professor of Political Science at University College London. He is known for his works on legal and political philosophy.
Bellamy is a winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize 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, literature, art or economics.' Bellamy has been the lead editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) since 2003.

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

Edited
 Victorian Liberalism, Routledge, 1990 - reissued 2024
 Theories and Concepts of Politics: An Introduction Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1993
 (with Angus Ross), A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Thought, Manchester University Press, 1996
 (with Dario Castiglione), Constitutionalism in Transformation, Blackwell, 1996
 (with Martin Hollis), Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality, Routledge 1999
 (with Alex Warleigh), Citizenship and Governance in the EU, Continuum, 2001
 (with Andrew Mason), Political Concepts, Manchester University Press, 2003
 (with Terry Ball), The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2003
 (with Dario Castiglione and Emilio Santoro), Lineages of European Citizenship, Palgrave, 2004
 The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers, Routledge 2005
 Public Ethics, Routledge 2010
 (with Joseph Lacey), Political Theory and the European Union, Routledge 2017

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Living people
21st-century British philosophers
Philosophy academics
Fellows of the British Academy
Academics of University College London
British political philosophers
Philosophers of law
European University Institute alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
1957 births
Academics from Glasgow
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences