Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D. (1999), is a Professor of General History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His previous books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1999) on political parties and Protestant Nations Redefined (2005) on the modernization of national identities.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. British and Swedish Parliamentary Debates in a Comparative Study of Political Vocabularies 2. Variations in British Parliamentary Conceptions of the People, 1734–17713. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty and Representative Democracy Already Exist in Sweden Before 1772?4. The Re-Evaluation of the Presentation of the People and Democracy in Westminster, 1772–17895. Reactions to the Revolutionary Concepts of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Westminster, 1789–1800ConclusionBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of Subjects

Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D. (1999), is a Professor of General History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His previous books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1999) on political parties and Protestant Nations Redefined (2005) on the modernization of national identities.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. British and Swedish Parliamentary Debates in a Comparative Study of Political Vocabularies 2. Variations in British Parliamentary Conceptions of the People, 1734–17713. The Swedish Case: Did Popular Sovereignty and Representative Democracy Already Exist in Sweden Before 1772?4. The Re-Evaluation of the Presentation of the People and Democracy in Westminster, 1772–17895. Reactions to the Revolutionary Concepts of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty in Westminster, 1789–1800ConclusionBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of Subjects