Kari Palonen is Professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has published extensively on the concept of politics and its history, principles and practices of conceptual history, and the political thought and methodology of Max Weber, among other topics. His latest monograph is Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff. Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags (Leverkusen 2021).