Kari Palonen


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


Research interests

Max Weber re-thinks ”objectivity” with the parliamentary procedure as a model for fair debate pro et contra. My conceptual and historical studies of parliamentary politics analyse the value and uses of fair procedures for presenting and debating opposed points of view for politicians and scholars.

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


Follow-up groups


Personal keywords

Politics as a concept, political thought, conceptual history, political rhetoric, parliamentarism


Projects as Principal investigator


Publications and other outputs

  
Go to first page
  
Go to previous page
  
16 of 19
  
Go to next page
  
Go to last page
  

Last updated on 2024-21-06 at 18:33