Overview

My main areas of research comprise democratic theory and the history of early modern political philosophy.

I am currently the Director of the Centre for Political Thought at the University of Exeter. For six years, between 2009 and 2015, I was one of the Editors of the ECPR Press.

During the Academic Year 2007-08, I was the Gaetano Mosca Chair for the "Dipartimento di Science Politiche" of the University of Turin.  From 2003 to 2005 I was Senior Research Fellow at Center for Democracy and the Third Sector, Georgetown University, Washington DC. And In 2001 I gave one of the Plenary Lectures at the 28th Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Victoria (BC).

I have been Visiting Fellow or Professor at the following institutions: Research School of Social Sciences, Australia National University, Canberra; Zentrum fur Europaische Rechtspolitik, University of Bremen; Robert Schuman Centre and European University Institute, Florence (Forum on "European Constitutionalism"); the New School University, New York; and more recently in China at the Universities of Thinghua, Peking, and Fudan, Shanghai.

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Research

Main Research Interests

My main fields of interest is political and democratic theory and the history of early modern political philosophy.

Main areas of research and interest in political theory comprise:

Democratic theory and the interconnection between state and society, in particular ideas of representation and accountability, civil society and social capital, public and private. I have also worked and published extensively on democracy, citizenship and constitutionalism in Europe, with particular application to the development of the European Union as both a ‘polity’ and a ‘regime’; and the recurrent tension between the national and supranational dimensions of politics in the EU, as well as the communitarian and comspolitan discourses underpinning them. 

Currently, my research focus in political theory is around theories of political representation and political legitimacy. 

My interest in the history of political thought comprise:

European ideas and the history of political thought, particularly the early modern republican, jurisprudential, and social contract traditions; Hume, Mandeville and the Scottish Enlightenment, the debate about commerce and morality; the historiography of political thought and its methodological implications; philosophical scepticism.

Research Projects

My main research interest at the moment is in the area of political representation. My interest in political representation developed while I was a Research Fellow at the Georgetown 'Centre for Democracy and the Third Sector', where I organized several initiatives together with Professor Mark Warren. 

In the past, I have been part of a number of research projects financed by either the ESRC or the European Commission on issues of European democracy, constitutionalism, new governance, and citizenship.

Main Research Grants

· 2011-2013: Grant in support of FP7 Intra-European Marie Curie fellowship (Dr Sandra Kroeger): 192.850Euros

· 2004-2007: IP on ‘New Methods of Governance’ (NEWGOV), Exeter Partner: 20,000Euros

· 2002-2005: RTD consortium on ‘Citizenship and democratic legitimacy in the European Union (CIDEL), Exeter Partner: 162,694 Euros

· 2001: EURESCO Conference on ‘Social Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, sponsored by ESF and EC (plus a £3,000 contribution from the OEOS ESRC Programme): 45,000Euros

· 1999-2002: ESRC Research Grant on ‘Strategies of Civic Inclusion in Pan-European Civil Society’ (main co-ordinator) as part of the Programme on ‘One Europe or Several’: £161,090

· 1998-2000: TSER Network on European Citizenship (EURCIT), Scientist in Charge for Exeter: 29,220ECU (Exeter’s share)

· 1998-99: ESRC Research Grant on ‘Citizenship and sovereignty in a mixed polity’ (together with Professor Richard Bellamy, Reading): £41,913 (R000222446)

· 1994-97: ESRC Research Grant on ‘Principles and languages of the constitution of Europe’ (together with Professor Richard Bellamy, Reading): £24,140 (R000221170)

Editorial Collaborations

Editor of ECPR Press

Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory

Member of the editorial board of Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica; and the online, peer-reviewed journal: InTransizione

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Projects

• The Representative Disconnect: diagnosis and strategies for rectification (REDIRECT)‌ - funded by: Horizon Programme (and UKRI for the Exeter participation)
• The contribution of Civil Society Organizations to representative democracy in the EU - funded by: European Commission (EC)

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Supervision

History of political thought: methods and approaches 

17th and 18th political thought, with particular reference to the Scottish Enlightenment, republicanism, natural law theories 

The political thought of authors such as David Hume, Bernard Mandeville

Political Representation

Theories of Democracy and civil society

Constitutionalism: Theory and history

The development of the European Union: constitutional and democratic issues

Citizenship and social capital
 

Research students

Currently, I am supervising the following research students:

Bingshu Zhao, Bringing the family back into early modern political thought

Roberto Baccarini, The Nature of the EU’s Institutional Structure and its Role in the Response to the Covid-19 Crisis

Lingzheng Zeng, Isaiah Berlin: Pluralism and Toleration

Students I have ssupervised in the past comprise:

Yutao Zhao, Self-love and the artificiality of Civil Society: Hobbes, Mandeville and Hume

Marios Filis, Political Ethics: History and Theory

Alexandra Bohme, The Multidimensional Sovereignty of the European Union

Jan Pieter Beetz, Popular Sovereignty in Europe

Keith Sutherland, Giving Up on the Concept of Representation

Farhad Kerimov, Pluralism, Discourse, and Democratic Politics

Martin Moorby, Marx's "Riddle": Alien Politics in the Thought of Karl Marx

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Publications

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2022

• Castiglione D. (2022) Representing the public, Jurisprudence, volume 13, no. 3, pages 436-442, DOI:10.1080/20403313.2022.2120674.

2021

• Zhao Y. (2021) Self-Love and the Artificiality of the Civil Society: Hobbes, Mandeville, and Hume.

2020

• Castiglione D. (2020) The system of democratic representation and its normative principles, Research Handbook on Political Representation, Edward Elgar Publishing, 16-35.

2019

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2019) From Maastricht to Brexit Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU.
• Bellamy R, Bonotti M, Castiglione D, Lacey J, Näsström S, Owen D, White J. (2019) The Democratic Production of Political Cohesion: Partisanship, Institutional Design and Life Form, Contemporary Political Theory, volume 18, no. 2, pages 282-310, DOI:10.1057/s41296-018-00285-w.

2018

• Mckinnon C, Castiglione D. (2018) Introduction: Reasonable tolerance.
• Mckinnon C, Castiglione D. (2018) The culture of toleration in diverse societies.
• Castiglione D. (2018) Conceptions of Trust: From Social Mechanism to Normative Principle, Trust, Distrust, and Mistrust in Multinational Democracies: Comparative Perspectives, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 19-31.
• Castiglione D, Pollak J. (2018) 'The Logics of Democratic Presence in Representation', Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Representation, Chicago University Press.
• Castiglione D. (2018) " Creating Political Presence: The New Politics of Representation, Chicago University Press.

2017

• Buckle S, Castiglione D. (2017) Hume's critique of the contract theory, David Hume, 467-490, DOI:10.4324/9781315258492.
• Castiglione D. (2017) Beyond “Basic Liberal Proceduralism”, Political Theory, volume 46, no. 1, pages 115-122, DOI:10.1177/0090591717696018. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2017) Outsider–insider’s perspectives, Philosophy and Social Criticism, volume 43, no. 3, pages 292-293, DOI:10.1177/0191453716673431.
• Castiglione D, Sabetti F. (2017) Institutional Diversity in Self-governing Societies The Bloomington School and Beyond, Lexington Books.

2016

• Castiglione D. (2016) Social Learning and the Bonds of Self-governing Communities, Institutional Diversity in Self-governing Societies: The Bloomington School and Beyond, Lexington Books.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2016) Three models of democracy, political community and representation in the EU, The Representative Turn in EU Studies, 52-69, DOI:10.4324/9781315540115.
• Castiglione D. (2016) The figure of democracy and its legitimacy, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, volume 15, no. 2, pages 215-219. [PDF]

2015

• Accetti CI, Mulieri A, Buchstein H, Castiglione D, Disch L, Frank J, Sintomer Y, Urbinati N. (2015) Debating representative democracy, Contemporary Political Theory, volume 15, no. 2, pages 205-242, DOI:10.1057/cpt.2015.57.
• Castiglione D, Violante P. (2015) Intrasformazione, Mimesis Edizione.
• Castiglione D. (2015) Trajectories and Transformations of the Democratic Representative System, Global Policy, volume 6, no. S1, pages 8-16, DOI:10.1111/1758-5899.12223.
• Castiglione D. (2015) The Logic of Social Cooperation for Mutual Advantage - The Democratic Contract, Political Studies Review, volume 13, no. 2, pages 161-175, DOI:10.1111/1478-9302.12080.

2014

• Castiglione D. (2014) Concluding notes: Rethinking political representation in a supranational context, Political Representation in the European Union: Still Democratic in Times of Crisis?, 215-236, DOI:10.4324/9781315794761.

2013

• Castiglione D, Warren ME. (2013) A New Ecology of Democratic Representation? Eight Theoretical Issues, Intrasformazione: Rivista di Storia delle Idee, volume 2, no. 2, pages 155-172, DOI:10.4474/DPS/02/02/MTR86/18.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2013) Three models of democracy, political community and representation in the EU, Journal of European Public Policy, volume 20, no. 2, pages 206-223, DOI:10.1080/13501763.2013.746118.
• Castiglione D. (2013) Back to the future? The euro and the EU silent constitution building, The single currency and European Citizenship, Bloomsbury.
• Castiglione D, (with R. Bellamy). (2013) Three Models of Democracy, Political Community and Representation in the EU, Journal of European Public Policy, volume 1, no. 20, DOI:10.1080/13501763.2013.746118.
• Castiglione D. (2013) The Origin of Civil Government, Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 491-529.

2012

• Castiglione D. (2012) Europeanism. By John McCormick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 272p. $49.95. - Political Theory of the European Union. Edited by Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 248p. $99.00, Perspectives on Politics, volume 10, no. 4, pages 1107-1108, DOI:10.1017/s1537592712002447.
• Schaap A. (2012) Critical Exchange on Michael Saward's The representative claim, Contemporary Political Theory, volume 11, no. 1, pages 109-127, DOI:10.1057/cpt.2011.42. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2012) Political Theory of the European Union, PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, volume 10, no. 4, pages 1107-1108. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2012) Europeanism, PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, volume 10, no. 4, pages 1107-1108. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2012) A new agenda for democratic representation?, Politics and Gender, volume 8, no. 4, pages 518-523, DOI:10.1017/S1743923X12000530.
• Castiglione D. (2012) Il linguaggio della rappresentanza politica in trasformazione, Le Parole della Vita Pubblica, Marcianum Press, 121-143.
• Castiglione D. (2012) Les conceptions de la confiance : Du mécanism social au le principe normatif, La dynamique confiance/méfiance dans les démocraties plurinationales, UQP, 19-32.
• Castiglione D. (2012) La rappresentanza informale e il sistema della rappresentanza democratica, Parolechiave, no. 47, pages 23-36.
• Castiglione D. (2012) A new agenda for democratic representation?, Gender & Politics, volume 8, pages 1-6.
• Castiglione D. (2012) Giving Piktin her due: What the 'representative claim' gets right, and what it risks missing, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, volume 11, no. 1, pages 118-122. [PDF]

2011

• Castiglione D. (2011) Introduction, Res Publica, volume 17, no. 4, DOI:10.1007/s11158-011-9165-z.
• D. Castiglione. (2011) Symposium on Luigi Ferrajoli’s Theory of Law and Constitutional Democracy, Res Publica: a journal of legal and social philosophy, volume 17, no. 3, pages 311-383.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2011) Democracy by Delegation? Who Represents Whom and How in European Governance, Government and Opposition, volume 46, no. 1, pages 101-125.

2010

• Wagner C, Castiglione D, Schaap A, Ferrara A, Richardson J. (2010) Review Symposium on The Force of the Example, Political Studies Review, volume 8, no. 2, pages 197-207.
• Castiglione D. (2010) Introduction to Review Symposium on The Force of the Example, by Alessandro Ferrara, Political Studies Review, volume 8, no. 2, pages 218-219.
• Castiglione D. (2010) Hume’s Liberal Mind, Dialogue. Canadian Philosophical Review, volume XXXV, pages 87-92.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R, Weale A, Follesdal A. (2010) Evaluating Trustworthiness, Representation and Political Accountability in New Modes of Governance, New Modes of Governance in Europe: Governing in the Shadow of Hierarchy, Palgrave, 135-162.
• Ferrara A, Castiglione D, Richardson J, Schaap A, Wagner C. (2010) Review Symposium on The Force of the Example, POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, volume 8, no. 2, pages 192-207, DOI:10.1111/j.1478-9302.2009.00210.x. [PDF]

2009

• Castiglione D. (2009) Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xiv + 271, Utilitas, volume 9, no. 2, pages 259-261, DOI:10.1017/s095382080000532x.
• Castiglione D. (2009) ‘Political identity in a “community of strangers”’, European Identity, Cambridge University Press, 29-51.

2008

• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2008) Beyond Community and Rights: European Citizenship and the Virtues of Participation, Constituting Communities, Palgrave, 162-186.
• Castiglione D. (2008) ‘Conceptual issues in social capital theory’, The handbook of Social Capital, Oxford University Press, 13-21.
• Castiglione D. (2008) 'Social Capital between Community and Society', The Handbook of Social Capital, Oxford University Press, 555-567.
• Castiglione D. (2008) ‘Social Capital as a Research Programme’, Oxford University Press.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2008) ‘Il ruolo della democrazia nell’Unione europea’, Ragion Pratica, volume 30, pages 115-130.
• Castiglione D, van Deth J, Wolleb G. (2008) The Handbook of Social Capital, Oxford University Press.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2008) ‘Beyond Community and Rights: European Citizenship and the Virtues of Participation’, Constituting Communities, Palgrave MacMillan.
• Castiglione D, van Deth J, Wolleb G. (2008) Social Capital's Fortune: An Introduction, The Handbook of Social Capital, Oxford University Press, 1-10.

2007

• Tellis AJ, Vincent N, Mansbach RW, Henderson JB, Bates DW, Canny N, Barker AJ, Monod P, Craton M, McLaren M. (2007) Reviews of Books, The International History Review, volume 29, no. 1, pages 123-228, DOI:10.1080/07075332.2007.9641122.
• Castiglione D. (2007) Constitutional Moment or Constitutional Process?, Constitutional Politics in the European Union, Springer Nature, 26-45, DOI:10.1057/9780230593343_3.
• Schönlau J, Castiglione D. (2007) Conclusion: From the Convention to the Referendums and Beyond, Constitutional Politics in the European Union, Springer Nature, 229-253, DOI:10.1057/9780230593343_13.
• Castiglione D. (2007) Constitutional Politics in the European Union, Constitutional Politics in the European Union, Springer Nature, 11-25, DOI:10.1057/9780230593343_2.
• Castiglione D, Schönlau J, Longman C, Lombardo E, Borragán NP-S, Aziz M. (2007) Introduction: a Convention Without a Constitution?, Constitutional Politics in the European Union, Springer Nature, 1-6, DOI:10.1057/9780230593343_1.
• Castiglione D. (2007) Political Theory and the European Constitution, Contemporary Political Theory, volume 6, no. 1, pages 120-122, DOI:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300289.
• Castiglione D. (2007) The idea of a European superstate: Public justification and European integration, INT HIST REV, volume 29, no. 1, pages 218-219.
• Castiglione D, Aziz M, Lombardo E, Longman C. (2007) Constitutional Politics in the EU: The Convention Moment and its Aftermath, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Castiglione D, Longman C. (2007) The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies, Hart Publishers.

2006

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D, Shaw J. (2006) Introduction: From National to Transnational Citizenship, Making European Citizens, Springer Nature, 1-28, DOI:10.1057/9780230627475_1.
• Castiglione D, Schönlau J. (2006) Constitutional Politics, Handbook of European Union Politics, SAGE Publications, 283-300, DOI:10.4135/9781848607903.n15.
• Castiglione D. (2006) 'We the Citizens?' Representation and Participation in EU constitutional politics, Making European Citizens: Strategies for Civic Inclusion, Palgrave, 75-95.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2006) La legittimazione della forma di stato e della forma di governo europea: la svolta normativa negli studi sull’UE, Europa, Cittadinanza, Confini: Dialogando con Etienne Balibar, Pensa Multimedia, 291-335.
• Castiglione D. (2006) Amore di sé, Enciclopedia filosofica, Bompiani.
• Castiglione D. (2006) Representation, Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage, 823-827.
• Castiglione D. (2006) Accountability, Encyclopedia of Governance, Sage, 1-7.
• Castiglione D, Warren M. (2006) Rethinking Democratic Representation: Eight theoretical issues, Rethinking Representation, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1st - 1st May 2006.
• Castiglione D. (2006) Hume's two views of modern scepticism, History of European Ideas, volume 32, no. 1, pages 1-27, DOI:10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2005.07.003.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R, Shaw J. (2006) Making European Citizens: Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context, Palgrave-MacMillan.

2005

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2005) Building the Union: The Nature of Sovereignty in the Political Architecture of Europe, Theories of Federalism: A Reader, Springer Nature, 293-310, DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-05549-1_25.
• Joerges C, Castiglione D. (2005) Working Through 'Bitter Experiences' Towards Constitutionalisation. A Critique of the Disregard for History in European Constitutional Theory: Are Those that Forget the Past Doomed to Repeat its Mistakes? A Comment on Christian Joerges, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.908829.
• Castiglione D. (2005) Public reason, private citizenship, Public and Private: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives, 28-50, DOI:10.4324/9780203977774-8.
• Castiglione, D.. (2005) 'Blood and Oil: Eighteenth-Century Monetary Anxieties', Historical reflections/Réflexions historiques, volume 31(1), pages 27-48.
• Castiglione D. (2005) Republicanism and its legacy, European Journal of Political Theory, volume 4, no. 4, pages 453-465, DOI:10.1177/1474885105055993.
• Castiglione D. (2005) Did Europe need a Constitution? Between Facts and Theories, European political science, volume 4, no. 4, pages 374-383.

2004

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D, Santoro E. (2004) Lineages of European Citizenship: Rights, belonging and participation in eleven nation-states, DOI:10.1057/9780230522442.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D, Lacroix J. (2004) Lacroix's European Constitutional Patriotism: A Response (multiple letters), Political Studies, volume 52, no. 1, pages 187-193, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00472.x.
• Schmitter P, Castiglione D, al E. (2004) The Future of Democracy in Europe, Council of Europe, Council of Europe.
• Castiglione D. (2004) Refleksioner over Europas konstitutionelle fremtid, Tidsskriftet Politik, volume 7, no. 1, pages 25-34.
• Castiglione D. (2004) Lineages of European Citizenship, Palgrave.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2004) Lacroix's European constitutional patriotism: A response, POLITICAL STUDIES, volume 52, no. 1, pages 187-193, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2004.00472.x. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2004) Reflections on Europe’s constitutional future’, Constellations, volume 11, no. 3, pages 393-411.

2003

• Mckinnon C, Castiglione D. (2003) Introduction, Toleration, Neutrality and Democracy, Springer Nature, 1-7, DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-0241-6_1.
• Castiglione D. (2003) History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories, The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls, 97-116, DOI:10.4324/9780203392928.
• Castiglione D. (2003) The social history of skepticism: Experience and doubt in early modern culture, HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, volume 29, no. 1, pages 111-115, DOI:10.1016/S0191-6599(02)00089-X. [PDF]
• McKinnon C. (2003) The Culture of Toleration in Diverse Societies: Reasonable Tolerance.
• McKinnon C. (2003) Toleration, Neutrality and Democracy.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2003) Legitimising the Euro-"polity" and its "regime": The Normative Turn in European studies, European Journal of Political Theory, volume 2, no. 1, pages 7-34, DOI:10.1177/1474885103002001277.

2002

• Castiglione D. (2002) Civil society: History and possibilities, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, volume 23, no. 4, pages 710-711. [PDF]
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2002) Beyond Community and Rights: European Citizenship and the Virtues of Participation , Quaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno, volume 31, pages 349-380.
• Castiglione D. (2002) Mandeville and Augustan ideas: New essays, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 117, no. 471, pages 479-480, DOI:10.1093/ehr/117.471.479. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2002) The necessity of politics: Reclaiming American public life, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, volume 23, no. 2, pages 346-348. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2002) Democracy and justice, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, volume 23, no. 2, pages 346-348. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (2002) European citizenship: National legacies and transnational projects, POLITICAL STUDIES, volume 50, no. 1, pages 182-182. [PDF]

2001

• Castiglione D, Mckinnon C. (2001) Introduction: Beyond toleration?, Res Publica, volume 7, no. 3, pages 223-230, DOI:10.1023/A:1012293627331.
• Castiglione D. (2001) Democracy and associations, POLITICAL STUDIES, volume 49, no. 5, pages 1022-1022. [PDF]
• Hampsher-Monk IW, Castiglione D. (2001) The History of Political Thought in National Context, Cambridge University Press.

2000

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (2000) The Normative Turn in European Union Studies: Legitimacy, Identity and Democracy, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.1530444.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (2000) A constituição da União Europeia: alternativa republicana ao liberalismo, Análise Social, volume XXXIV, no. 151-52, pages 425-455.

1999

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1999) A constituição da união Europeia: Alternativa republicana ao liberalismo, Analise Social, volume 34, no. 151-152, pages 425-455.
• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (1999) Mezi Kosmopolis a pospolitostí - tri modely práv a demokracie v Evropské unii, Filosofický Casopis, volume 47, no. 4, pages 621-648.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1999) Between cosmopolis and community: Three models of rights and democracy within the European Union, FILOSOFICKY CASOPIS, volume 47, no. 4, pages 621-648. [PDF]

1998

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1998) The Normative Challenge of a European Polity: Cosmopolitan and Communitarian Models Compared, Criticised and Combined, Democracy and the European Union, Springer Nature, 254-284, DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-03622-8_13.
• Castiglione D. (1998) From Heroes to Honnêttes Hommes and Back?, History of European Ideas, volume 24, no. 1, pages 65-69.
• Castiglione D. (1998) Ethics and politics in Seventeenth-century France, HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, volume 24, no. 1, pages 65-69. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (1998) Montesquieu and the Parlement of Bordeaux, HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, volume 24, no. 1, pages 65-69. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (1998) Rousseau and liberty, HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS, volume 24, no. 1, pages 65-69. [PDF]

1997

• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1997) Building the Union: The Nature of Sovereignty in the Political Architecture of Europe, Constructing Legal Systems: “European Union” in Legal Theory, Springer Nature, 91-115, DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-1152-4_4.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1997) Building the union: The nature of sovereignty in the political architecture of Europe, Law and Philosophy, volume 16, no. 4, pages 421-445, DOI:10.2307/3504983.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1997) Constitutionalism and democracy - Political theory and the American constitution, BRIT J POLIT SCI, volume 27, pages 595-618.

1996

• Castiglione D. (1996) The Constitution in Transformation: European and Theoretical Perspectives, Blackwell.
• Bellamy R, Castiglione D. (1996) Introduction: Constitutions and politics, POLITICAL STUDIES, volume 44, no. 3, pages 413-416, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1996.tb00591.x. [PDF]
• Castiglione D. (1996) The political theory of the constitution, POLITICAL STUDIES, volume 44, no. 3, pages 417-435, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1996.tb00592.x. [PDF]
• CASTIGLIONE D. (1996) OPINION AND REFORM IN HUME POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - STEWART,JB, DIALOGUE-CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW, volume 35, no. 1, pages 87-92, DOI:10.1017/S0012217300008088. [PDF]

1995

• Castiglione D, Bellamy R. (1995) The Reconfiguration of Politics in the New Europe: Constitutionalism, Democracy and Identity, European Journal of Law, Philosophy and Computer Science, volume 7, pages 9-20.
• Castiglione D. (1995) Democracy and Constitutional Culture in the Union of Europe, Lothian Foundation Publisher.
• Castiglione D. (1995) Shifting the Boundaries. Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century, Exeter University Press.

1994

• Castiglione D. (1994) History and Theories of Civil Society. Outline of a contested paradigm, Australian Journal of Politics and History, volume 40, pages 83-103.

1993

• Castiglione D. (1993) Tra il dire e il fare. Alcune osservazioni su linguaggi, azione e interpretazione, Scienza e Politica, volume VIII, pages 17-32.
• Castiglione D. (1993) Historical Arguments in Political Theory, Political Theory Newsletter, volume V, no. 2, pages 89-109.

1991

• Mineo M. (1991) Scritti di Mario Mineo, 8 volumes, Flaccovio Publishers.
• CASTIGLIONE D. (1991) FROM ARISTOTELIAN ECONOMICS TO POLITICAL-ECONOMY - ESSAY ON MONTCHRETIEN 'TRAICTE' - ITALIAN - BRAZZINI,G, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, volume 12, no. 3, pages 541-542. [PDF]
• BUCKLE S, CASTIGLIONE D. (1991) HUME CRITIQUE OF THE CONTRACT-THEORY, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, volume 12, no. 3, pages 457-480. [PDF]

1989

• Mandeville B. (1989) Modesta Difesa, Flaccovio Publishers.

1988

• Castiglione D. (1988) La Fortuna di Bernard Mandeville, Il Pensiero Politico, volume XXI, no. 3, pages 366-375.
• Castiglione D. (1988) I Paradigmi nella Storiografia del Pensiero Politico, Teoria Politica, volume IV, no. 3, pages 89-106.
• Castiglione D. (1988) Dell’Opinione. La filosofia politica di David Hume, Ila Palma.

1987

• Castiglione D. (1987) Contese Ideologiche intorno a Hume, Teoria Politica, volume III, no. 3, pages 149-156.
• Castiglione D. (1987) David Hume’s Conventionalist Analysis of Justice, Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, volume XXI, pages 139-173.

1986

• Castiglione D. (1986) Considering Things Minutely. Reflections on Mandeville and the 18th-century Science of Man, History of Political Thought, volume VII, no. 3, pages 463-488.

1983

• Castiglione D. (1983) Mandeville Moralized, Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, volume XVII, pages 239-290.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• POL3132 - Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State?
• POLM806 - Problems and Texts in Social and Political Thought

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Biography

Dario is Reader/Associate Professor in Political Theory.

He studied Philosophy in Palermo, where he graduated with a thesis on Max Weber. His education at the time owes probably more to the intellectual rigor and stimulation of political discussions and political criticism (and to an amazing group of friends) than to University lectures.

During and soon after his undergraduate studies, he worked as a journalist. He did not escape the military service, which in Italy was compulsory until a few years ago.

He came to Britain in the early 1980s to learn English, and is still learning. Thanks to a studentship from the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin), which was generously renewed for 3 years, he did his postgraduate studies at Sussex, and obtained a D.Phil. with a thesis on David Hume's Political Philosophy. While at Sussex, he discovered the riches of Intellectual History thanks to Donald Winch, John Burrow and Stefan Collini.

He joined the Department of Politics at Exeter in 1989, and was lucky to find the ideal environment in the Exeter political theory group, which has traditionally cultivated both historical and contemporary interests in the study of political thought. During these years, he has greatly enjoyed the friendly environment offered by the Department and the intellectual stimulus of the conversations and the collaboration with present and past colleagues. However, he has not given up his combative spirit, which occasionally drives academic colleagues and some in the administrative staff mad.

During these years, he has carried on working on the history of political and philosophical thought, but has also returned to his earlier interests in contemporary social and political theory. For many years he has been actively involved in the discussion of the constitutional impact of the European integration process, and on the transformation of some of the fundamental categories of our political language in the light of recent postnational developments. He has been involved in numerous European-wide research networks and projects concerned with the normative dimension of European integration, particularly in collaboration with Richard Bellamy (currently at UCL).

For the past 10 years he has shifted his political theory interests to political representation and democratic legitimacy, though fromtime to time he is still working on Hume and early modern political thought.

He has taught or has been visiting scholar in a number of institutions in the USA, Australia, Italy, Germany, Austria, and China

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More information

Professionally related activities:

·       2006-07: Member of the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Referee Panel 

·       2007: Member of Evaluation Panel of >node< (New Orientations for Democracy in Europe), a research programme of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development (RFT).

·       2010-2012: Chair for the Blondel Prize for the best PhD thesis in Political Science 

·       2012: Chair of the Prize Committee for the best 2011 article published in the journal Contemporary Political Theory

Refereeing and Research Funding Assessments 

Reader for: 

Publishers: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Manchester University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Polity, Sage, Continuum.

Academic Journals, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Politics, History of Political Thought, Political Studies, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Common Market Studies, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Res Publica, Review of International Political Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, The Journal of European Integration, Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of International Relations, The Swiss Political Science Review, Hume Studies, Constellations, Theoria, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Polity, International Studies Perspectives, Policy and Politics, International Studies Review, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Government and Opposition, Journal of Social Policy, Politics, Philosophy Politics and Economics, Ratio Juris, Brazilian Political Science Review.

Referee for:

Research Grant and Post-doctoral Fellowship Referee for the ESRC (UK); the SSHR Canada; the Italian Ministry for University and Research (Anvur); the European Commission for FP7; the European Science Foundation; the Dutch Research Council; the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR); FWO, Research Foundation Flanders; The Research Council of Norway

Conferences and Workshops

As part of my research activities, I have organized numerous conferences and workshops. This is a list of the main events which I have promoted:

·       Panel on Republicanism and Representation in Contemporary Perspectives, at The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, Venice June 2021

·       The nature and transformation of contemporary political regimes: Sino-European perspectives, Exeter February 2019

·       Representation in Historical and Transcultural Perspectives, Exeter April 2019

·       Sino-European Workshop, organised in collaboration with the University of Fudan, Exeter May 2018

·       Workshop on ‘New Approaches to Political Cohesion in Democratic Systems’, Exeter, November 2017

·       Sino-European Workshop on ‘Populism: Origins, evolution and effects’, organised together with Fudan University, Shanghai, April 2017. 

·       Panel on ‘Populism, anti-establishment politics and representation, ECPR Conference, Oslo, October 2017

·       Conference on ‘Le Metamorfosi della Rappresentanza’, (co-organised) University of Turin, October 2016

·       Workshop on ‘Translating Political Languages: A Sino-European Perspective’, Exeter, June 2016

·       Workshop on ‘The Vocabulary of Representation’, German Historical Institute, Paris, April 2016

·       Panel on ‘Is Democracy Today Unthinkable Without Parties?’, ECPR Conference, Montreal August 2015

·       Workshop on Two Faces of Political Representation (together with Johannes Pollak, October 2015 (Harvard University)

·       Symposium on Albert Weale, Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (co-organized with Chiara Cordelli), University of Exeter May 2014

·       SWDTC Programme for Graduate Advanced Training in ‘Issues in Political Theory’, University of Exeter, Academic year 2013–2014.

·       Conference on Trends in Political Representation in the EU, (co-organised with Sandra Kröger), University of Exeter, May 2012, funded by the Jean Monnet Programme. 

·       Workshop on ‘”We the People” A new object of democratic analysis’ (co-organized with Sofia Näsström), ECPR Joint Sessions, St. Gallen, April 2011

·       Symposium on Michael Saward, The Representative Claim, University of Exeter, October 2010

·       Panel at the ECPR conference, Potsdam 2009

·       APSA Roundtable on ‘Social Capital and Inequality’, Boston, August 2008

·       Co-organiser of the Conference on ‘Democratic Representation’ at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver May 2006

·       Panel on ‘Changing ideas of accountability, responsibility and representation in democratic governance’, 3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, September 2005

·       Panel on ‘Representation and participation in democratic theory’, at the MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2005

·       CIDEL Workshop on ‘Constitution making and democratic legitimacy in the European Union’, London November 2004 Research Workshop on ‘The transformation of Representation’, CDATS, Georgetown University, Washington DC, June 2004

·       The public discourse of law and politics in multilingual societies (IILS, Oñati, 6-8 June, 2001)

·       EURESCO Conference (also financed by the European Commission) on ‘Social Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ (Exeter, September 2001)

·       Colloquium on ‘Constitutionalism, democracy and citizenship’ (University of Exeter, November 2000)

·       ‘European Citizenship III’, EURCIT Workshop (University of Vienna, September 2000)

·       ‘European Citizenship II’, EURCIT Workshop (University of Sassari, June 2000)

·       ‘The Culture of Toleration’, Conference of the Association of Social and Legal Philosophy (University of Exeter, April 2000)

·       ‘European Citizenship I’, EURCIT Workshop (University of Minho, November 1999)

·       ‘National Traditions of Citizenship II’, EURCIT Workshop (University of Florence, May 1999)

·       1999 Conference of Political Thought (St. Catherine College, Oxford), January 1999

·       ‘National Traditions of Citizenship I’, EURCIT Workshop (University of Reading June 1998)

·       ‘The Constitution in Transformation’, Workshop in preparation of the Political Studies Special Issue (UEA, September 1995)

·       ‘History and Theory in National Contexts’ (University of Exeter, November 1994)

·       ‘The Constitution of Europe’ (University of Exeter, June 1993)

·       ‘Public and Private Spheres in the Eighteenth Century’ (University of Exeter, March 1993)

·       ‘The Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Europe’ (University of Exeter, May 1992)

·       ‘The Greening of Politics’ (University of Exeter, March 1991)

·       ‘Scenari della Transizione nell’Est Europeo’ (University of Perugia, Settember 1990)

·       ‘Open Forum on Easter Europe’ (University of Exeter, February 1990)

·       ‘La Trasformazione della Sinistra Italiana’ (University of Palermo, November 1989)

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