Pasi Ihalainen is Professor of Comparative European History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research focuses on the secularization of the concept of the political party, the modernization of national identities, and the redefinition of democracy and parliamentarism in the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. His books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1999), Protestant Nations Redefined (2005), Agents of the People (2010), and the co-edited volumes Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution (2011), Language Policies in Finland and Sweden (2015), and Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept (2016).

Satu Matikainen is Departmental Coordinator at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published several articles and a monograph on the history of minorities, parliamentary history, and 20th-century international history. She is the co-editor of Small Nations on the Borderlines of Great Powers (2013).