Pedro Teixeira
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Pedro A. Teixeira is an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch (HU Berlin), where he works in the French-German project “EURO-DEM: Workplace democracy: a European ideal?” (ANR-DFG, 2021-2024). He teaches political philosophy at the Otto-Suhr Institute (FU Berlin) since 2018. He conducted post-doctoral research about the political economy of social-democracy at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy in Lisbon. In 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department of Columbia University, and before that he worked as a research assistant at the London School of Economics (LSE) and at NOVA SBE in Lisbon. He is a member of the European Network of Workplace Democracy.
His current research lies at the intersection of political philosophy, political economy and the history of ideas, namely on topics such as models of democratic control of the workplace and of the economic sphere, the idea of socialism, and the roots of social and political normativity.
He joins the Paris IAS in May 2025 for a group research stay as part of the CAT collaborative program, in collaboration with researchers Aurélie Andry, Sophia Friedel and Philippe Reick.
Sujets de recherche
Démocratie du travail, Démocratie sociale, Socialisme, Libéralisme, Méthodologies en théorie politique, Economie politique
(Collaborative project, awarded a NetIAS Constructive Advanced Thinking grant, 2021-2024)
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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