R Bellamy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12664 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Bellamy |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Bellamy |
| ASSINATURA | BELLAMY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9823-0626 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 123 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 594 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1926 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation
It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even justified. By contrast, we draw on John Rawls’ Political Liberalism to argue that the ‘reasonable disagreements’ occasioned by the ‘fact of pluralism’ that make democratic politics necessary can only be resolved in ways congruent with democratic norms if politicians are truthful in Bernard Wi…
Political Constitutionalism and Referendums
The UK's political constitution rests on the checking and balancing operations of a representative system in which parliament is sovereign. By contrast, referendums are often considered instances of popular sovereignty. Critics condemn them as populist appeals to a singular will of the people that risk majority tyranny, supporters believe they allow citizens to check and balance the elitism of politicians. Such arguments lay behind the criticism …
Political constitutionalism and populism
Criticisms of political constitutionalism's relationship to populism point in two opposed directions. Legal constitutionalists consider it too open to, and even as legitimating, populist politics, whereas radical democrats consider it too closed to popular participation, prompting an anti‐system politics of a populist character. I dispute both these views. Underlying these contrasting assessments are differing conceptions of populism and constitu…
Differentiated integration as a fair scheme of cooperation
Differentiated integration (DI), whereby some MS opt out or are excluded from certain common EU policies for sovereignty or capacity reasons, may be thought to undermine the EU’s functioning as what John Rawls called a fair scheme of cooperation, grounded in norms of impartiality and reciprocity. However, we argue that different forms of DI can be compatible with either fair cooperation between states on the model of Rawls’ Law of Peoples or coop…
A reply to my critics
My five critics all raise important points, giving reasons for viewing my account as either insufficiently or overly realist or utopian. By and large, I stick to my guns in regarding my version of a realistic Utopia of a republican association of states as the most plausible way of achieving a non-dominating global order capable of meeting the moral and functional challenges to state sovereignty posed by cosmopolitanism and globalisation respecti…
A Republican Europe of States
This introduction offers a synopsis of the book, A Republican Europe of States, outlining its main arguments, followed by an overview of the symposium
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration
Both political parties and differentiated integration (DI) play an ambivalent role in regard to democratic backsliding. Parties’ positioning towards democratic backsliding has not always been straightforward, and DI has been seen as facilitating it. We analyse whether party actors view democratic backsliding as a problematic issue for the EU, if they think DI facilitates it, and how they consider the EU should respond to it. Drawing on thirty-fiv…
Party views on differentiated integration
Countering Democratic Backsliding by EU Member States
Constitutional pluralism (CP) and differentiated integration (DI) have been criticised as potentially legitimising democratic backsliding within the EU. Critics contend that effective measures require strengthening the legal authority of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the political authority of the European Commission. We dispute this criticism, which rests on a federal conception of the EU at odds with its confederal features. We…
The Democratic Dilemmas of Differentiated Integration
Differentiated integration (DI) appeals as a pragmatic way of accommodating political and economic differences among member states (MS). However, it potentially challenges their equal standing in EU decision‐making, creating the possibility for some MS to dominate others. As such, it risks undermining the democratic legitimacy of the EU. Drawing on 35 interviews with party actors in seven MS, we find many shared these concerns, thereby questionin…
A Republican Europe of States
Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a new interpretation of the EU's democratic failings and how they might be addressed. Drawing on the republican theory of freedom as non-domination, Bellamy proposes a way to combine national popular sovereignty with the pursuit of fair and equitable relations of non-dominat…
Between Utopianism and Realism
Taking debates about democracy in the EU as an example, Fabio Wolkenstein proposes that normative theorists should adopt a ‘partisan’ approach that engages with ‘formative agents’ to advocate for transformative political and societal change, such as the creation of a transnational democracy at the EU level. He criticises those he calls ‘democratic intergovernmentalists’ for adopting a ‘first principles’ approach that forecloses both contestation …
The Democratic Production of Political Cohesion
Challenges of Inequality to Democracy
Democracy, as we understand it, is a process of collective decision- making among persons, which issues in collectively binding norms for the society of those persons. It is a process of decision- making in which persons participate as equals in determining the legal and conventional norms that bind them and in which the group of persons, taken collectively, are sovereign. Democracy can be understood as a descriptive term, referring to political …
Losing control
Was the Brexit referendum legitimate, and would a second one be so
This article suggests that common arguments questioning the legitimacy of the first Brexit referendum prove flawed, as do certain others supporting the legitimacy of a second referendum. A different case for a second referendum is offered that would have added to the legitimacy of the first, but the opportunity for which has now passed. Nevertheless, it might be legitimate to overturn the first referendum through a normal parliamentary process sh…
Balancing the rights and duties of European and national citizens
Published online: 23 Aug 2018
Majority Rule, Compromise and the Democratic Legitimacy of Referendums
Cheneval and el‐Wakil () defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the concerns of certain citizens and end up reflecting the views of a minority. By contrast, this comment argues that the likelihood of exclusion and settlement on a minority preference is much greater when policy choices are made by referendum. The reason…
Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously
Taking Rights Seriously is concerned above all with due process, both in law and politics. In this respect, his theory of law and critique of legal positivism frames his theory of politics. He conceives both law and politics in terms of a “right to equality,” the aim being to show individuals equal concern and respect. However, whereas he regards legal process as a matter of principle, orientated toward viewing our relations with others in terms …
A demoicratic justification of differentiated integration in a heterogeneous EU
Earlier scholarship assumed differentiated integration (DI) was pragmatic and temporary and that member states should and would converge on the same policies. By contrast, we contend that many instances of DI can be normatively justified on democratic grounds of fairness, impartiality and equity as suitable ways to accommodate economic, social and cultural heterogeneity. We distinguish between instrumental, constitutional and legislative differen…
European boundaries in question
This introduction provides a descriptive typology and normative analysis of the ways boundaries are being questioned in Europe. We distinguish between boundary-making (defining or redefining the territorial borders of a polity), boundary-crossing (determining the rules of access to territorial borders) and boundary-unbundling (allowing boundary-making and boundary-crossing to vary between policies and polities), noting each of these categories po…
A European Republic of Sovereign States
This article defends state sovereignty as necessary for a form of popular sovereignty capable of realising the republican value of non-domination and argues it remains achievable and normatively warranted in an interconnected world. Many scholars, including certain republicans, contend that the external sovereignty of states can no longer be maintained or justified in such circumstances. Consequently, we must abandon the sovereignty of states and…
The politicization of European integration
Beyond a constraining dissensus
Which Republicanism, Whose Freedom
Article first published on August 22, 2016. Part of Review Symposium: On the People’s Terms by Philip Pettit (On the people's terms : a republican theory and model of democracy, by Philip Pettit, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Legitimizing the Euro-`polity' and its `Regime
This article discusses the normative implications of the European integration process by addressing the question of the legitimacy deficit in the EU and its member states. It starts from an analysis of legitimacy as implying a distinction between `polity' and `regime', each of which has an `internal' and an `external' dimension relating respectively to the subjective perceptions of citizens and to more objective- and universalist-oriented criteri…
Political legitimacy and European monetary union
The crisis of the euro area has severely tested the political authority of the European Union (EU). The crisis raises questions of normative legitimacy both because the EU is a normative order and because the construction of economic and monetary union (EMU) rested upon a theory that stressed the normative value of the depoliticization of money. However, this theory neglected the normative logic of the two-level game implicit in EMU. It also negl…
An Ever Closer Union Among the Peoples of Europe’
EU institutions are best conceived as representing the peoples of Europe – a contention set out in the first, introductory, section and developed over the next five sections. The second section establishes how democratic legitimacy involves governments being representative of a people and specifies the characteristics a people need to possess for such representation to be possible. Though no EU demos exists with these features, the third section …
A demoicratic justification of differentiated integration in a heterogeneous EU
Earlier scholarship assumed differentiated integration (DI) was pragmatic and temporary and that member states should and would converge on the same policies. By contrast, we contend that many instances of DI can be normatively justified on democratic grounds of fairness, impartiality and equity as suitable ways to accommodate economic, social and cultural heterogeneity. We distinguish between instrumental, constitutional and legislative differen…
Democracy without democracy? Can the EU's democratic ‘outputs’ be separated from the democratic ‘inputs’ provided by competitive parties and majority rule
Various European Union (EU) analysts suggest that although a democratic deficit exists from the perspective of ‘input’ democracy, democratic processes such as competitive parties and majority rule are neither necessary nor suitable to secure democratic ‘outputs’ of the kind the EU delivers. This article disputes this claim. ‘Input’ arguments are vital to the legitimacy of decision-making in the EU's policy areas, and the non- and counter-majorita…
Domesticating the Democratic Deficit? The Role of National Parliaments and Parties in the EU's System of Governance
First published online: August 23, 2012
Democracy, Compromise and the Representation Paradox
Coalitions are often condemned as undemocratic and unprincipled because of the compromises they involve. Politicians are accused of betraying the commitments they made during the election. Paradoxically, proponents of this view suggest that if compromises are to be made they should be pragmatic and based on policy rather than principle. This article disputes this thesis and defends compromise as both principled and democratic. The first section d…
A European Republic of Sovereign States
This article defends state sovereignty as necessary for a form of popular sovereignty capable of realising the republican value of non-domination and argues it remains achievable and normatively warranted in an interconnected world. Many scholars, including certain republicans, contend that the external sovereignty of states can no longer be maintained or justified in such circumstances. Consequently, we must abandon the sovereignty of states and…
Evaluating Union citizenship
Union citizenship often gets criticized for complementing rather than offering an alternative to citizenship at the member state level. By contrast, this article defends that complementary status as the most sociologically plausible and normatively acceptable role for this status. Citizenship as it developed within the member states combined the values of belonging, rights and participation. EU citizenship has attempted to develop the first from …
The Political Form of the Constitution
According to article 16 of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, 'A society where rights are not secured or the separation of powers established has no constitution at all'. Together with representative government, which to a large extent was assimilated to the second, these two principles have defined constitutionalism. In recent years. however, the first has come to predominate. This article suggests an alterna…
Dirty hands and clean gloves
Can liberal ideals clean up dirty politicians or politics? This article doubts they can. It disputes that a ‘clean’ liberal person might inhabit the dirty clothes of the real politician, or that a clean depoliticized liberal constitution can constrain real-world dirty politics. Nevertheless, the need for a democratic prince to wear clean liberal gloves offers a necessary and effective political restraint. It also means that citizens share the hyp…
The New Right Conception of Citizenship and the Citizen's Charter
MANY COMMENTATORS HAVE VIEWED THE CITIZEN'S CHARTER programme as a cynical exercise, having little to do with either the political participation one associates with citizenship or the establishment of a general bill of rights in the manner of the great Charters of the past. Although these criticisms possess some force, they fail to recognize that a distinctive conception of citizenship and rights underlies the initiative. In section one, we give …
Countering Democratic Backsliding by EU Member States
Constitutional pluralism (CP) and differentiated integration (DI) have been criticised as potentially legitimising democratic backsliding within the EU. Critics contend that effective measures require strengthening the legal authority of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the political authority of the European Commission. We dispute this criticism, which rests on a federal conception of the EU at odds with its confederal features. We…
The politicization of European integration
Introduction
Compromise is routinely evoked in everyday language and in scholarly debates across the social sciences. Yet, it has been subjected to relatively little systematic study. The introduction to this inter-disciplinary volume addresses the research gap in three steps. First, we offer three reasons for the study of compromise: its empirical omnipresence in politics, its theoretical potential to bridge the rationalist-constructivist divide, and its nor…
From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation
Prevailing conceptions of political ethics largely centre on nation states and a world order composed of them. This article asks whether the European Union (EU) can be seen to challenge such conventional thinking. If, as is now commonly held, the EU has a polity-like structure which nonetheless lacks some of the features of conventional statehood, then our concepts of public ethics may need to be re-cast. We take citizenship as a case study in or…
Beyond a constraining dissensus
Representation Deficits and Surpluses in EU Policy-making
Representation and democracy are not always complementary. Sometimes the one undermines the other. Too much democracy can create a representation deficit, as occurs when majorities oppress or neglect minorities. However, the opposite can also arise. The over representation of different groups can undermine the processes whereby representatives are authorised by and accountable to those they are supposed to serve. The EU offers multiple channels o…
Majority Rule, Compromise and the Democratic Legitimacy of Referendums
Cheneval and el‐Wakil () defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the concerns of certain citizens and end up reflecting the views of a minority. By contrast, this comment argues that the likelihood of exclusion and settlement on a minority preference is much greater when policy choices are made by referendum. The reason…
The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Conventions
International Human Rights Courts (IHRCts), such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), have come under increasing criticism as being incompatible with domestic judicial and legislative mechanisms for upholding rights. These domestic instruments are said to possess greater democratic legitimacy than international instruments do or could do. Within the UK this critique has led some prominent judges and politicians to propose withdrawing fr…
Three models of democracy, political community and representation in the EU
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. The EU's political system represents European citizens via three different channels: through the European Parliament; indirectly through their governments in the Council; and through domestic elections, which hold these last democratically accountable to national parliaments or citizens. However, these channels involve different and incompatible types of representation and forms of democracy, reflecti…
Dethroning Politics
The relationship between liberalism and democracy is notoriously paradoxical. On the one hand, the justification for democratic procedures most commonly rests on liberal assumptions. Standard liberal arguments for democracy range from the importance of consent due to the moral primacy of the individual, to the role of critical argument and the diversity of opinion for the discovery of truth. On the other hand, liberal institutional arrangements, …
Balancing the rights and duties of European and national citizens
Published online: 23 Aug 2018
Constitutionalism and Democracy – Political Theory and the American Constitution
The term 'constitutional democracy' can be interpreted as either an oxymoron or a tautology. On the one hand, constitutionalism and democracy can appear opposed to each other. Whereas the first term refers to 'restrained and divided' power, the second implies its ultimately 'unified and unconstrained' exercise. On the other hand, constitutions can be presented as codifying the rules of the democratic game, indicating who can vote, how, when and w…
Carl Schmitt and the contradictions of liberal democracy
This article examines the contradictions Schmitt holds to exist between liberalism and democracy. The authors first examine Schmitt's descriptions of liberalism and democracy. They then proceed to his analysis of the political domain, which provides the basis of his criticism of liberal democracy. Following an evaluation of his argument, they propose a democratic conception of liberalism which both draws on Schmitt's account of the political whil…
Classified Book Notes
Journal Article Classified Book Notes Get access Katharine Jocher, Katharine Jocher University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ellen J. O'Leary, Ellen J. O'Leary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. H. H., F. H. H. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Raymond Bellamy, Raymond Bellamy Florida State College for Women…
Twentieth Century Economic History of Europe
Journal Article Twentieth Century Economic History of Europe Get access Twentieth Century Economic History of Europe. By Paul Alpert. New York, Henry Schuman, 1951. xiv+466 pp. Tables. Index. 812′ ′×534′ ′ . $6. R. Bellamy R. Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 1951, Pages 490–491, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608609 Published: 01 October 1951
Problèmes D'Économie Internationale
Journal Article Problèmes D'Économie Internationale: une nouvelle expérience Get access Problèmes D'Économie Internationale: une nouvelle expérience. By Jean Weiller. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1950. 333 pp. 912′ ′×614′ ′Frs.800. R. Bellamy R. Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 1951, Page 222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2606169 Published: 01 …
World Trade and Investment
World Trade and Investment: the Economics of Interdependence Get access World Trade and Investment: the Economics of Interdependence. By Donald Bailey Marsh. Foreword by Howard S. Ellis. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1951. xxii+594 pp. Bibliog. Index. 914′ ′×614′ ′ . $6.75. R. Bellamy R. Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 1951, Page 490, https://doi.org/…
Hegel’s conception of the State and political philosophy in a post-Hegelian world
Raymond Aron
Hegel and liberalism
Idealism and Liberalism in an Italian ‘New Liberal Theorist’
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The future of democracy
Preface I The great dichotomy public/private 1 A dichotomous pair 2 Corresponding dichotomies 3 The evaluative use of the great dichotomy 4 The second meeting of the dichotomy II Civil Society 1 The various meanings 2 The Marxian interpretation 3 The Hegelian system 4.
Post-Modernism and the End of History
The morality of freedom
Fascism and Everyday Life
The unprincipled society
Modern Italian Social Theory
A theory of freedom
The self, the individual, and the community
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World
Between economic and ethical liberalism
Hayek and modern liberalism
(1991). Hayek and modern liberalism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 310-311
The social and political thought of R.G. Collingwood
Schumpeter and the Transformation of Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy
RECENT EVENTS IN EASTERN EUROPE HAVE GENERATED A large degree of uncritical triumphalism amongst certain Western commentators. The collapse of the communist regimes in these countries as the result of their failure to manage their economies and the consequent demand on the part of their citizens for more accountable government, has led many to link the struggle for democracy with a desire for capitalism. Some writers have gone so far as to portra…
Lo Stato Immaginario
Liberalism and nationalism in the thought of Max Weber
1992). Liberalism and nationalism in the thought of Max Weber. History of European Ideas: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 499-507
Social Theory and the Decline of the Public Intellectual
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