Palle Bech-Pedersen
DFG-Funded (Pol) – November 2020 to December 2024
In 2013 he earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Aarhus University - that included a one-year stint at the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig. Upon gaining working experience as an English teacher in Bogota (Colombia), he began the master’s program in politics, economics, and philosophy at Universität Hamburg from which he graduated in spring 2018. Since then he has been working on his dissertation at Universität Hamburg, while also gaining some teaching experience. His research interests span the fields of deliberative and epistemic theories democracy, preference/belief-formation (in particular adaptive preferences) and ideology critique. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg in March 2024 through the graduate program Collective Decision-Making. His research area is political theory. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as the European Journal of Political Theory, Political Studies, and the Journal of Politics.