BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute and the Center for European Studies welc omes \;Richard Bellamy from University College London\, and the Hertie School in Berlin. \;Populism is often treated as the ‘dark side’ of d emocracy\, best countered by strengthening constitutional safeguards. For example\, Boris Johnson has been seen as being reigned in by the Supreme C ourt and in Germany there are calls to ban the AfD and render it unconstit utional. Yet the U.S. seems to tell a different story—nobody expects the S upreme Court to reign in Donald Trump. I shall argue that in all three cas es the rise of populism can be associated with too little rather than too much democracy and that counter majoritarian constitutional constraints ma y be part of the problem rather than the solution.Richard Bellamy is profe ssor of political science at University College London (UCL) and a senior fellow of the Hertie School in Berlin. He is a fellow of the Academy of So cial Sciences (FAcSS) and of the British Academy (FBA) and a member of the Academia Europea (MAE). His publications include “Croce\, Gramsci\, Bobbi o and the Italian Political Tradition” (ECPR Press\, 2014)\, for which he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy\, “Political Constitut ionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy” (Cam bridge University Press\, 2007)\, which won the David and Elaine Spitz Pri ze in 2009\, and “A Republic of European States: Cosmopolitanism\, Intergo vernmentalism and Democracy in the EU” (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) . His “Defending the Political Constitution\,” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press and “The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory” (co -edited with Jeff King) is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. DTEND:20241108T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T101505Z DTSTART:20241108T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Constitutionalism v. Populism - Are Britain and Germany less vulner able than the USA? UID:RFCALITEM639141633058863205 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute and the Center for E uropean Studies welcomes \;Richard Bellamy from University College Lon don\, and the Hertie School in Berlin. \;

Populism is often trea ted as the ‘dark side’ of democracy\, best countered by strengthening cons titutional safeguards. For example\, Boris Johnson has been seen as being reigned in by the Supreme Court and in Germany there are calls to ban the AfD and render it unconstitutional. Yet the U.S. seems to tell a different story—nobody expects the Supreme Court to reign in Donald Trump. I shall argue that in all three cases the rise of populism can be associated with too little rather than too much democracy and that counter majoritarian co nstitutional constraints may be part of the problem rather than the soluti on.

Richard Bellamy is professor of political scie nce at University College London (UCL) and a senior fellow of the Hertie S chool in Berlin. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the British Academy (FBA) and a member of the Academia Europea (MAE ).

His publications include “Croce\, Gramsci\, B obbio and the Italian Political Tradition” (ECPR Press\, 2014)\, for which he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy\, “Pol itical Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy” (Cambridge University Press\, 2007)\, which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009\, and “A Republic of European State s: Cosmopolitanism\, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU” (C ambridge University Press\, 2019). His “Defending the Political Con stitution\,” is forthcoming from Oxford University Press and “ The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory” (co-edited with Jeff King) is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

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