Pedro Teixeira
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Pedro Teixeira is a research associate at the Marc Bloch Centre (HU Berlin), where he is working on the Franco-German project ‘EURO-DEM: Workplace democracy: a European ideal?’ (ANR-DFG, 2021–2024). He has been teaching political philosophy at the Otto-Suhr Institute (FU Berlin) since 2018. He conducted postdoctoral research on the political economy of social democracy at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy in Lisbon. In 2017, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, and worked as a research assistant at the London School of Economics and at NOVA SBE in Lisbon. He is a member of the European Network for Democracy at Work.
His current research lies at the intersection of political philosophy, political economy and the history of ideas, focusing in particular on topics such as models of democratic control of the workplace and the economic sphere, the idea of socialism, and the roots of social and political normativity.
He joins the Paris IAS in April 2027 for a group research visit as part of the CAT collaborative programme, in collaboration with researchers Aurélie Andry, Sophia Friedel and Philippe Reick.
Pedro Teixeira est chercheur associé au Centre Marc Bloch (HU Berlin), où il travaille pour le projet franco-allemand « EURO-DEM : Workplace democracy : a European ideal ? » (ANR-DFG, 2021-2024). Il enseigne la philosophie politique à l'Institut Otto-Suhr (FU Berlin) depuis 2018. Il a mené des recherches postdoctorales sur l'économie politique de la social-démocratie à l'Institut de philosophie NOVA de Lisbonne. En 2017, il a été chercheur invité au département de philosophie de l'Université de Columbia, et a travaillé comme assistant de recherche à la London School of Economics et à NOVA SBE à Lisbonne.Il est membre du Réseau européen de la démocratie au travail.
Ses recherches actuelles se situent à l'intersection de la philosophie politique, de l'économie politique et de l'histoire des idées, notamment sur des sujets tels que les modèles de contrôle démocratique du lieu de travail et de la sphère économique, l'idée du socialisme et les racines de la normativité sociale et politique.
Il rejoint l'IEA en avril 2027 pour un séjour de recherche de groupe dans le cadre du programme collaboratif CAT, en collaboration avec les chercheurs Aurélie Andry, Sophia Friedel et Philippe Reick.
Research topics
Workplace Democracy; Social Democracy; Socialism; Liberalism; Methodologies in Political Theory; Political Economy.
Democracy at Work (DEmWo): Historical perspectives and future challenges for employee representation in Europe
DemWo investigates the historical evolution of industrial democracy in a transnational European context. The research group is driven by two central questions: First, it explores how historical periods of crisis and transformation shaped ideas and practices of industrial democracy. Second, the project considers how these historical legacies can inform responses to contemporary challenges. With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of AI and remote work, and the large-scale transformation of entire industries, the landscape of employee participation is rapidly changing. DemWo seeks to leverage historical insights to address these challenges. Comprised of a team of five scholars from History, Philosophy, and Law, DemWo will examine these issues through a multidisciplinary approach, using methods like close reading of historical texts, source criticism, discourse analysis, and legal interpretation.
The results of the research group's work will be disseminated through a joint publication and a public event, co-organized with our stakeholder, the European Trade Union Institute. The project aims to provide well-grounded policy recommendations and contribute to ongoing debates among trade unions and other relevant stakeholders. By strengthening institutions for employee participation, DemWo seeks to enhance employee efficacy, address democratic deficits, and make societies more resilient to the numerous and multi-dimensional challenges democracies are currently facing.
Key publications
Gröen-Xu, Moqi, Gregor Bös, Pedro A. Teixeira, Thomas Voigt, and Bernhard Knapp. "Short-term incentives of research evaluations: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework." Research Policy 52, no. 6, 2023: 104729
Teixeira, Pedro A. “The possibility of democratic socialism in Habermas”, European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 24, no. 4, Nov. 2021, pp. 601-618
Teixeira, Pedro A. “The Educational Role of the Market Sphere: bringing an expanded Hegelian view to today’s market system”, Philosophica, vol. 54, 2019, pp. 33-44
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