Mette Marie Stæhr Harder

Short presentation

Mette Marie Staehr Harder's research falls within comparative politics and focuses on the parliamentary representation of Indigenous peoples, Greenland, and emotions in politics. She studies questions such as:

• How are Greenland represented in the Danish parliament?
• May Indigenous peoples be well-represented in second-nation parliaments? Should they? How?
• How does the Danish parliament control the Danish Government?
• What role does emotions play in politics?
• How does the Danish Folketing work with political issues of gender equality?

Her article 'Pitkin's Second Way: Freeing Representation Theory from Identity', 56(1) won the Representation Best Paper Price 2020.

She is part of the EU-project ENCODE which studies the role of emotions in politics. From the Carlsberg Foundation, she recently received a grant for the project Metropolitan Parliamentary Representation. Here she will study how Greenland among other nations is represented in their metropolitan parliament. 

Other Roles:

Co-Chair of The International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee on Indigenous Politics (since November 2022).

Editorial Board Member of Nationalism & Ethnic Politics