Ilkka Kärrylä
VTT / DSocSc
ilkka.karryla@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2574-0200 |
political history; economic history; intellectual history; conceptual history; political ideologies; economic policy; industrial relations; democracy; theory and methodology of historiography; Finland; Sweden; Nordic countries
I am University Teacher of Contemporary History. I received my doctorate in social sciences (political history) from the University of Helsinki in 2020.
I specialize in political, economic and intellectual history, especially the history of economic thought and policy in the Nordic countries. My doctoral dissertation examined the debates on economic and industrial democracy in Finland and Sweden from the 1960s until the 1990s. I have published articles on Nordic liberalism, social democracy and industrial relations and on the theory and methodology of historiography in journals such as Contemporary European History, Contributions to the History of Concepts and Scandinavian Journal of History.
I am currently affiliated with two research projects: Neoliberalism in the Nordics led by Professor Jenny Andersson at Uppsala University and funded by Riksbankens Jublieumsfond, and Neoliberalisation of Nordic Democracy?, led by Professor Johan Strang at University of Helsinki and funded by the Academy of Finland.
In the autumn semester 2024 I am responsible for the study module of European Studies and teach a bachelor seminar group. I have previously taught undergraduate courses and seminars in political history as well as European and Nordic studies at the University of Helsinki.
- Onko Suomi hylkäämässä "pohjoismaisen työmarkkinamallin"? (2025)
- Työväentutkimus
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Äänestäjät ja ehdokkaat blokkiutuvassa politiikassa (2024) Pääministerivaalit polarisaation aikakaudella: Eduskuntavaalitutkimus 2023 Wass Hanna, Kärrylä Ilkka, Luostari Riku, Isotalo Veikko
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Ideological and pragmatic transformations: The adoption of neoliberal ideas by Finnish and Swedish conservative parties since the 1970s (2024)
- Scandinavian Journal of History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pohjoismainen malli ja sen neljä poikkeusta: Työmarkkinoiden instituutiot Norjassa, Ruotsissa, Suomessa ja Tanskassa (2024) Kärrylä Ilkka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - The Young Finns Party and the Plan for Neoliberal Retasking of the Welfare State in Post-Cold War Finland (2024)
- Contemporary European History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fragments of libertarianism and neoliberal ascendancy: Ideological features and limitations of the liberal breakthrough in Finland (2023)
- Journal of Political Ideologies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Puoluehajaannusta idän ja lännen välissä (2023)
- Työväentutkimus
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Democracy and the Economy in Finland and Sweden since 1960: A Nordic Perspective on Neoliberalism (2021) Kärrylä Ilkka
(C1 Refereed scientific book)