Lucia Rubinelli

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LSE Fellow 

Email: L.L.Rubinelli@lse.ac.uk
Office: CON 6.08, Connaught House
Office Hours: Thursdays 14:00-16:00
Tel: +44 (0)20 7849 7210
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Biography


Lucia Rubinelli is Fellow in Political Theory at the LSE. Before joining the School, she was a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, where she wrote a dissertation on the idea of constituent power as developed historically from the French Revolution up to contemporary political theory. She holds degrees from the LSE and the EHESS in Paris.  

Research Interests

  • History of political thought (particularly nineteenth century French liberalism
  • Weimar political thought, (the Italian realist tradition)
  • Theories of sovereignty
  • Constitutional theory
  • Theories of the state
  • Political representation
  • Political parties, electoral laws and political institutions in general
  • Italian politics

Teaching Responsibilities


  • GV302: Key themes in the history of political thought
  • GV4F5: Advanced study of key political thinkers
  • GV4G7: Marx and Marxism

 Publications


Thinking beyond sovereignty: on Sieyes and constituent power’, European Journal of Political Theory, April 2016

Taming Sovereignty: Constituent Power in Nineteenth-Century French Political Thought’, History of European Ideas, Forthcoming October 2016 

  Il potere del popolo nelle democrazie contemporanee’, Special section of Rivista di Politica, forthcoming, November 2016 (with Pereira, R.)

Of postmen and democracy: Sieyes’ theory of representation’, in Marquez, X., ed, Democratic Moments, Bloomsbury Academics, forthcoming, 2017

Opposing bicameralism to guarantee the separation of power’, in Albert, R, ed., Bicameralism under pressure, book manuscript

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