Prof. Dr. Miriam Ronzoni

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPractical Philosophy
KeywordsMeta-ethics, Philosophy of public policy, Global justice and institutions
Honours and awards

2018: Leverhulme Research Fellowship

2017: Justitia Amplificata Fellowsip, Frankfurt

2016: Corti Fellowship

2016: DFG E-journal grant

2012: Sofja Kovalevskaja Award

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester
InstitutionUniversity of Manchester
InstituteDepartment of Politics, School of Social Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jens SteffekInstitut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Prof. Peter NiesenInstitut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2012

Programme(s)

2012Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Theories of justice in political philosophy have in recent years been criticised as not being sufficiently realistic or politically relevant. The 'cosmopolitan turn' within political theory has been chided as utopian. Miriam Ronzoni's contributions have revitalised a discussion in danger of becoming scholastic, through re-connecting questions of justice with the efficient competences of states within global governance. Ronzoni rejects the exclusive focus on questions of distributive inequality that has long characterised debates in the tradition of John Rawls. Instead, she designs an original approach that is not concerned with the results of distribution, but with improving the capacities of domestic institutions through the support of international organisations. Such a framework can serve as the basis of a global 'background justice' and as a starting point for institutional and policy reform. Her research as a Sofja Kovalevskaja Awardee will concentrate on the regulation of financial markets and of international tax competition.