Juha Siltala
Biographic Data
| ID | 5879620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha Siltala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha |
| FAMILY NAME | Siltala |
| SIGNATURE | SILTALA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0631-2331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cumulative Frustrations and the Erosion of Social Trust before the Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War of 1918 has been described as a revolution of expectations in the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Russian Empire. More recently, it has been described as an attempted Bolshevik revolution in a democracy. From the perspective of the Finnish Social Democrats, the re-establishment of the Red Guards and seeking support from the Bolsheviks were aimed at preventing a bourgeois counter-revolution. They saw a clear threat o…
In Search of the Missing Links Between Economic Insecurity and Political Protest
The prospect of the social backsliding of middle-class groups in western countries has not benefited the left but fueled right-wing populism. This article examines mediating and moderating factors between economic threat and political choices. The shift of liberals towards conservatism and the activation of passive authoritarians explain sudden changes more than dispositional factors. Attachment to groups under stress activates coalitional mindse…
Dissolution and Reintegration in Finland, 1914–1932
Finland avoided participation in the Great War, but in 1918 fell into a short civil war that culminated in a cycle of vicious terror. The focus of this article is to explain the high incidence of terror during that civil war in comparison with other civil wars that took place in the Baltic region. The violent polarization of Finnish society was triggered as reform expectations skyrocketed at the moment when the country’s institutions were in chao…
New Public Management
New public management (NPM) has fitted public services into quasimarket models and introduced punishments and rewards to produce better services with lesser staff. Instead of having freed energies and creativity of the employees formerly shackled by their bureaucratic turfs, NPM reforms have bound energies into theatrical audit performances at the cost of work and killed creativity in centralizing resources and hollowing out the professional auto…
National Rebirth Out of Young Blood
This paper deals with anthropological and psychological explanations of war as a sacrificial ritual enhancing individual or group cohesion during the Finnish Civil war 1917–1918. Analysis of both bourgeois and Social Democrat press and party archives show how fantasies of a bloody solution appeared as early as the summer of 1917. Sacrifice of young men was seen as a national renewal, removing the suffocating atmosphere of the political stalemate …
Nation as Mother Figure for Reformers in Finland, 1840–1910
Nationalist leaders and intellectuals in Finland between 1840 and 1900 experienced their ‘nation’ as a mother figure not only metaphorically but quite literally. They (ab)used their actual female partners to receive and reward their patriotic efforts, as if these flesh and blood women had been incarnations of the national spirit. This kind of emotional containment enabled male heroes to achieve individual success and, simultaneously, to maintain …
New Public Management
New public management (NPM) has fitted public services into quasimarket models and introduced punishments and rewards to produce better services with lesser staff. Instead of having freed energies and creativity of the employees formerly shackled by their bureaucratic turfs, NPM reforms have bound energies into theatrical audit performances at the cost of work and killed creativity in centralizing resources and hollowing out the professional auto…
Dissolution and Reintegration in Finland, 1914–1932
Finland avoided participation in the Great War, but in 1918 fell into a short civil war that culminated in a cycle of vicious terror. The focus of this article is to explain the high incidence of terror during that civil war in comparison with other civil wars that took place in the Baltic region. The violent polarization of Finnish society was triggered as reform expectations skyrocketed at the moment when the country’s institutions were in chao…
National Rebirth Out of Young Blood
This paper deals with anthropological and psychological explanations of war as a sacrificial ritual enhancing individual or group cohesion during the Finnish Civil war 1917–1918. Analysis of both bourgeois and Social Democrat press and party archives show how fantasies of a bloody solution appeared as early as the summer of 1917. Sacrifice of young men was seen as a national renewal, removing the suffocating atmosphere of the political stalemate …
Nation as Mother Figure for Reformers in Finland, 1840–1910
Nationalist leaders and intellectuals in Finland between 1840 and 1900 experienced their ‘nation’ as a mother figure not only metaphorically but quite literally. They (ab)used their actual female partners to receive and reward their patriotic efforts, as if these flesh and blood women had been incarnations of the national spirit. This kind of emotional containment enabled male heroes to achieve individual success and, simultaneously, to maintain …
Nation as Mother Figure for Reformers in Finland, 1840–1910
Nationalist leaders and intellectuals in Finland between 1840 and 1900 experienced their ‘nation’ as a mother figure not only metaphorically but quite literally. They (ab)used their actual female partners to receive and reward their patriotic efforts, as if these flesh and blood women had been incarnations of the national spirit. This kind of emotional containment enabled male heroes to achieve individual success and, simultaneously, to maintain …
National Rebirth Out of Young Blood
This paper deals with anthropological and psychological explanations of war as a sacrificial ritual enhancing individual or group cohesion during the Finnish Civil war 1917–1918. Analysis of both bourgeois and Social Democrat press and party archives show how fantasies of a bloody solution appeared as early as the summer of 1917. Sacrifice of young men was seen as a national renewal, removing the suffocating atmosphere of the political stalemate …
New Public Management
New public management (NPM) has fitted public services into quasimarket models and introduced punishments and rewards to produce better services with lesser staff. Instead of having freed energies and creativity of the employees formerly shackled by their bureaucratic turfs, NPM reforms have bound energies into theatrical audit performances at the cost of work and killed creativity in centralizing resources and hollowing out the professional auto…
Dissolution and Reintegration in Finland, 1914–1932
Finland avoided participation in the Great War, but in 1918 fell into a short civil war that culminated in a cycle of vicious terror. The focus of this article is to explain the high incidence of terror during that civil war in comparison with other civil wars that took place in the Baltic region. The violent polarization of Finnish society was triggered as reform expectations skyrocketed at the moment when the country’s institutions were in chao…
In Search of the Missing Links Between Economic Insecurity and Political Protest
The prospect of the social backsliding of middle-class groups in western countries has not benefited the left but fueled right-wing populism. This article examines mediating and moderating factors between economic threat and political choices. The shift of liberals towards conservatism and the activation of passive authoritarians explain sudden changes more than dispositional factors. Attachment to groups under stress activates coalitional mindse…
Cumulative Frustrations and the Erosion of Social Trust before the Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War of 1918 has been described as a revolution of expectations in the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Russian Empire. More recently, it has been described as an attempted Bolshevik revolution in a democracy. From the perspective of the Finnish Social Democrats, the re-establishment of the Red Guards and seeking support from the Bolsheviks were aimed at preventing a bourgeois counter-revolution. They saw a clear threat o…
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