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I am postdoctoral researcher at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen on the research project Origins of Descriptive Representation ODER. The project is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and led by Frederik Hjorth. In the project, we use machine learning to digitize all Danish elections at the candidate level since the constitution in 1849 and investigate the representation of women and workers throughout Denmark’s democratic history.

I received my PhD degree in December 2023 from Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. My dissertation is titled “More Than A Job? Essays on Public Officeholders’ Rewards and Representation” and examines political careers and political representation. You can read and download the dissertation here. My PhD supervisors was Lene Holm Pedersen (primary) and Jens Olav Dahlgaard (secondary). During my PhD, I have been visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School and Harvard University.

My research interests relate to the composition and dynamics of the political class, and how political systems intentionally and unintentionally shape who we get as officeholders and how they behave. I use quantitative and computational methods, and I draw inferences by deploying various forms of quasi-experiments and traditional experiments.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research & Methods, and International Journal of Press/Politics.

Please reach out to me at fkl [at] ifs.ku.dk if you want to get in touch.