Zoltan Miklosi

Zoltan Miklosi received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. He specializes in political philosophy. His research interests range from more abstract questions about the basis and significance of equality, through problems of global political morality, to moral questions concerning the citizen-state relationship in defective democracies and so-called "hybrid regimes." His recent publications include:

• "Political Obligation under Electoral Authoritarianism," in George Klosko (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation (OUP, forthcoming in 2025)
• "Social Equality and Democratic Authority," Res Publica (2025)
• "Can the Liberal State Promote Social Cohesion?," Law, Ethics and Philosophy (2024)
• "Reconsidering the Capacity Principle," Analysis (2024)
• "Equality of Opportunity and the Presumption of Equality," Springer Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2023)
• "Cosmopolitanism and Unipolarity: The Theory of Hegemonic Transition" (with Jelena Belic), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2023)
• "The Problem of Equal Moral Status," Politics, Philosophy & Economics (2022)
• "Varieties of Relational Egalitarianism," Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 4 (2018).

In the fall of 2025, he will be a visiting faculty at the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Warwick. Since December 2021, he has been serving as work package leader in the Good Integration project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In 2014/15 he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.

He teaches courses in introduction to political philosophy, cosmopolitanism and global justice, and democratic theory.