Pasi Ihalainen Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History and Academy of Finland Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, concentrating especially on the history of political and social discourse in the long term from comparatve and transnational perspectives. His books include Agents of the People: Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in British and Swedish Parliamentary and Public Debates, 1734-1800 (2010), Parliament and Parliamentarism: Comparative History of a European Concept (2016, with Cornelia Ilie and Kari Palonen) and The Springs of Democracy: National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919 (2017). Read More Read Less