Kari Palonen
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General description
I am Professor emeritus of Political Science. I was Assicate Professor 1983-1993, Professor 1993-2014, since the with an emeritus contract. I was Academy of Finland Professor for two 5-years periods (1998-2003 and 2008-2012, https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/concluded/2012/dissensus) and led the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change (2006-2011) and the person in charge of Niilo Kauppi’s Academy of Finland Finnish Distinuished Professorship project TRACE (https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/political-institutions/trace)
I was the co-founder in 1997 and long-time editor-in-chief, now the second editor of the journal Redescriptions (https://journal-redescriptions.org/about/), I was the co-founder with Melvin Richter of the History of Concrpts Group in 1998 (https://www.historyofconcepts.net/) as well as the chair of the European Science Foundations network The Politics and History of European Democrazation in Europe (https://www.routledge.com/The-Ashgate-Research-Companion-to-the-Politics-of-Democratization-in-Europe/Palonen-Pulkkinen-Rosales/p/book/9781138382817) as well as the co-founder with Claudia Wiesner of the Politics of Concepts Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research in 2015 (https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/politicalconcepts/(https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/politicalconcepts/) and the co-editor with Claudia Wiesner of the book series Politics – Concepts – Debates /Politik – Begriffe – Debatten (https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/buchreihe/B001065200/politics-debates-concepts-politik-debatten-begriffe?qReihe=B001065200&qReiheNr=B001065200)
Advisory board member of the journals Contributions to the History of Concepts, Max Weber Studies and Politiikka. Life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Professor, Emeritus
Research interests
I have an international scholarly profile with publications in German and English on four interrelated research problematics: 1) The concept of politics and its history; 2) Parliamentary studies, especially conceptual, procedural and rhetorical aspects. 3) Political Thought and Methodology of Max Weber; 4) Principles and practices of conceptual history
My favourite own book is "Objektivität" als faires Spiel. Wissenschaft als Politik bei Max Weber (2010).
Currently I am studying a new topic: Parliamentarism and supranationality in the European integration
Monographs and article collections
1) The concept of politics and its history
– Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff. Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags. 2021, Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 406 p.
https://shop.budrich.de/produkt/politik-als-parlamentarischer-begriff/
The Struggle with Time. A Conceptual History of Politics as an Activity, 2014/2006 2. Edition with a New Preface (p. i-xxiv) + 342 p. Münster: LIT. ISBN 978-3-8258-9293-7.
https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-8258-9293-7
Rhetorik des Unbeliebten. Lobreden auf Politiker im Zeitalter der Demokratie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2012, 209 p. ISBN 9-978-3-8329-7135-9., E-Book ISBN 978-3-8452-3800-5
https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/rhetorik-des-unbeliebten-id-78071/
Re-thinking Politics. Essays from a quarter-century, edited by Kia Lindroos. Helsinki: The Finnish Political Science Association 2007, 340 p. ISBN 978-951-98514-3-3
https://www.finlandiakirja.fi/fi/kari-palonen-re-thinking-politics-1385261
Politik als Vereitelung. Die Politikkonzeption in Jean-Paul Sartres ‘Critique de la raison dialectique’. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot , 266 s,1992, ISBN 3-924550-70-0.
Die Thematisierung der Politik als Phänomen. Eine Interpretation der Geschichte des Begriffs Politik im Frankreich des 20. Jahrhunderts. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 38.). 177 s.,1990. ISBN 951-653-195-4
Politik als Handlungsbegriff. Horizontwandel des Politikbegriffs in Deutschland 1890-1933. Helsinki : Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1985. (Commentationes scientiarum socialium; 28). 184 p., ISSN 0355-256X
2) Parliamentary studies, especially conceptual, procedural and rhetorical aspects
Parliamentary Thinking. Procedure, Rhetoric and Time. 2018 London: Palgrave Macmillan 270 p. ISBN 978-3-319-90533-4
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319905327
From Oratory to Debate. Parliamentarisation of Deliberative Rhetoric in Westminster. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016, 262 p., ISBN 978-3-8487-2913-5, ISBN online: 978-3-8452-7296-2
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783845272962/from-oratory-to-debate
The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure. The formation of the Westminster procedure as a parliamentary ideal type. Leverkusen: Budrich, 274 p., 2014, Paperback 2016, ISBN 978-3-8474-0610-5
https://shop.budrich.de/produkt/the-politics-of-parliamentary-procedure/
The Politics of Limited Times. The Rhetoric of Temporal Judgment in Parliamentary Democracies. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 264 p. ISBN 978-3-8329-3804-8. https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/the-politics-of-limited-times-id-112252/
3) Political Thought and Methodology of Max Weber
Max Webers Begriffspolitik. Aufsätze aus zwei Jahrzehnten. 2019, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 270 p. ISBN 978-3-8487-5380-2 (Print)ISBN 978-3-8452-9519-0 (ePDF) https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845295190
https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/max-webers-begriffspolitik-id-78068/
A Political Style of Thinking. Essays on Max Weber. 2017, Colchester: ECPR Press, 236 p., ISBN: 9781785522659
https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/a-political-style-of-thinking-9781785522703
"Objektivität" als faires Spiel. Wissenschaft als Politik bei Max Weber. 2010, Baden-Baden:
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Politics as a concept, political thought, conceptual history, political rhetoric, parliamentarism
Projects as Principal investigator
- Transformations of Concepts and Institutions in the European Polity
- Research Council of Finland
Publications and other outputs
