The volume has two main issues. One focuses on Mikael Agricola and his contribution to reformation in Finland and the Finnish language. The corresponding articles are Heidi Salmi, German Influence on the Finnish in Mikael Agricola, Jyrki Knuutila, The Impact of the Reformation on Finland from the Perspective of Finnish Students at Wittenberg University (1531-1633), and Andreas Pawlas, Mikael Agricola and the Finnish Identity. Is Mikael Agricola the root for the special link between Finland and Germany when it comes to culture and language? Kirsti Siitonen and Katri Annika Wessel contribute a report on the teaching and research of Finnish language and culture in German universities. The first university to offer modules in Finnish was the University of Greifswald, where teaching began in 1921. The second focus is on voting. The article by J. Antonio Seijas-Macias, Power Index of Finnish Parties: Evolution of the Parliament System, resumes methods and results presented in Manfred J. Holler's A Priori Party Party Power and Government Formation: Esimerkkinä Suomi published in Volume 1 of FGY-PE. Holler's analysis ended in 1978 when his article was first published. Seijas-Macias' article is accompanied by two studies of recent elections in Finland and Germany: Lasse Nurmi and Hannu Nurmi, From Center-Right to Center-Left: The 2019 Parliamentary Election in Finland, and Christoph Dörffel, Andreas Freytag, and Miriam Kautz, The 2019 State Election in Thuringia and the Populist Threat. There are obvious differences but also simularities. Back to the beginning of this volume. Jussi Pajunen and Mikko Karjalainen's article analyzes a rather dark chapter of FinnishGerman cooperation, the Finnish volunteer battalion of the Waffen SS in 19411943.

Manfred J. Holler studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in München (1966-68), Jura an der Université de Lausanne (1968-1969) und wieder Volkswirtschaftslehre (1969-71) und Politikwissenschaften (1972-1975) an der LMU, wo er 1975 promovierte und im November 1984 habilitierte. 1984-1985 vertrat er die Professur für Volkswirtschaftliche Versicherungslehre an der LMU. 1986-1991 war er Associate Professor an der Universität Aarhus, Dänemark. 1991 nahm er den Ruf auf eine ordentliche Professur an der Universität Hamburg an. Im Oktober 2011 wurde er - nach Erreichen der Altersgrenze - pensioniert. Sein Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre war die Mikroökonomik, insbesondere Spieltheorie. Manfred J. HOLLER is emeritus professor at the University of Hamburg. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Political Economy which he managed 1985-1993. He is also the founding editor of Homo Oeconomicus and managed this journal 1983-2015. He serves as assessing editor or board member for various journals such as "The Journal of Mind and Behavior" (since 1980), "Control and Cybernetics" (since 1994), "European Journal of Law and Economics" (since 1989), and "Games" (since 2009). These positions reflect his areas of research and most of the subjects of his numerous publications. Recent books are..