"The emergence of the modern voter, a constitutive element of representative emocracy, is far from a trivial process. It requires a widespread  adoption of the electoral logic of equality based on the principle of “one individual, one opinion, one vote,” a logic unfamiliar in the era preceding the establishment of mass politics. How this usually gradual and presumably laborious process, the construction of the voter, took place in Finland in the late nineteenth century and the  beginning of the twentieth century is an interesting question: there, the electorate expanded and the political system underwent a sudden  and thorough transformation in sharp distinction to the decades long development common in other countries.'' (Source: Autor's Introuction: The Construction of The Voter in Finland, C. 1860-1907. Alapuro, Risto, 2006.  Redescriptions Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History, Contents 2006, Volume 10, 41).

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