Pasi Ihalainen

Pasi Ihalainen

Academy Professor
Unit
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department / Division
Department of History and Ethnology
Mobile
+358400247457
Fields of science
615 History and Archaeology

Biography

Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, concentrating on the history of political discourse in the long term and from comparative and transnational perspectives. Currently, as an Academy of Finland Professor, he studies the history of representative democracy and especially tensions between parliament and the people between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse digitised parliamentary debates from nine Northwest European countries. His previous research topics include political pluralism, parliamentarism, nationalism and internationalism. Professor Ihalainen is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

Research interests

Vertaileva historiantutkimukseni on auttanut suomalaisia ja luoteiseurooppalaisia ymmärtämään kansallisten identiteettiensä protestanttisia juuria, kansanvallan ja parlamentarismin kehittymistä pitkällä aikavälillä sekä kansallisilla ja rajat ylittävillä foorumeilla käydyn poliittisen keskustelun dynamiikkaa, etenkin kriiseissä.

Publications

Publication
2025
Writing Conceptual Histories. Writing History. Bloomsbury Academic.
Ihalainen, Pasi
Marjanen, Jani