The Finnish Political Science Association has published a book series in English since 1983. In 2018, the Association decided to renew it under the title Pro et Contra. Books from the Finnish Political Science Association.
Pro et Contra is a peer-reviewed, open access book series published in collaboration with Helsinki University Press.
With this new format, the Association seeks to highlight the diversity of Finnish political studies by offering the opportunity to publish first-class monographs in English. The open access format enables the publication of research faster and with better public outreach than conventional publication processes.
Academic Advisory Board
Niilo Kauppi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) / University of Strasbourg, France
Tuija Parvikko, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Fritz Sager, University of Bern, Switzerland
Maija Setälä, University of Turku, Finland
Elena García Guitián, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Petri Koikkalainen, University of Lapland, Finland
Pro et Contra book series has the right to use peer-review label in its publications. The label is granted by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), and it indicates that the peer review of books has been performed in line with the quality and ethical criteria imposed by the international academic community.
If you would like to make a book proposal, please use this form and email as attachment to editors.booksfpsa@gmail.com
Contact details
Editor-in-Chief: Taru Haapala, Autonomous University of Madrid
Managing Editor: Anna Kronlund, University of Jyväskylä
Facebook: @booksfpsa
Previously appeared titles
Previously appeared titles in the English-speaking book series Books from the Finnish Political Science Association:
Ilkka Heiskanen and Sakari Hänninen (eds.): Exploring the basis of politics (1983)
Dag Anckar and Erkki Berndtson (eds.): Essays on democratic theory (1984)
Heikki Paloheimo (ed.): Politics in the era of corporatism and planning (1984)
Pertti Ahonen: Public policy evaluation as discourse (1985)
Harto Hakovirta (ed.): Fragmentation and integration (1986)
Jukka Kanerva and Kari Palonen (eds.): Transformation of ideas on a periphery (1987)
Dag Anckar and Erkki Berndtson (eds.): Political science between the past and the future (1987)
Dag Anckar, Hannu Nurmi and Matti Wiberg (eds.): Rationality and legitimacy (1988)
Jan Sundberg and Sten Berglund (eds.): Finnish democracy (1990)
Risto Sänkiaho (ed.): People and their polities (1990)
Sakari Hänninen and Kari Palonen (eds.): Texts, contexts, concepts: studies on politics and power in language (1990)
Marja Keränen (ed.): Finnish undemocracy. Essays on Gender and Politics (1990)
Matti Wiberg (ed.): The public purse and political parties: public financing of political parties in the Nordic countries (1991)
Matti Wiberg (ed.): The Political life of institutions (1991)
Kari Palonen and Tuija Parvikko (eds.): Reading the political (1993)
Matti Wiberg (ed.): Parliamentary control in the Nordic countries (1994)
Sami Borg and Risto Sänkiaho (eds.): The Finnish voter (1995)
Kyösti Pekonen (ed.): The new radical right in Finland (1999)
Teivo Teivainen: Enter economism, exit politics. Transnational politics of economism and limits to democracy in Peru (2000)
Harto Hakovirta (ed.): Globalism at the crossroads: wedges into global theory and policy (2000)
Matti Wiberg (ed.): Reasoned choices: scripta in honorem professoris Hannu Nurmi sexagesimum annum complentis, August 24, 2004 (2004)
Kari Palonen: RE-THINKING POLITICS. Essays from a quarter-century (ed. Kia Lindroos) (2007)
Tuija Parvikko: Arendt, Eichmann and the politics of the past (2008)
Suvi Soininen and Tapani Turkka (eds.): The parliamentary style of politics (2008)
Pertti Ahonen, Sakari Hänninen and Kari Palonen (eds.): Fortunae rota volvitur. Studies on the writings of Ilkka Heiskanen, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Helsinki, on the occasion of his 75th birthday 23 December 2010 (2010)
Tapio Raunio and Hannu Nurmi (eds.): The Serious Game of Politics: Festschrift for Matti Wiberg (2014)
Inquiries and orders
Bookstore Tiedekirja
Bookstore Tiedekirja
Kirkkokatu 14
00170 HELSINKI
As a member of the FPSA you get a 40 percent discount on the books published by the FPSA (please inform the vendor at Tiedekirja when ordering).