作者: Ann Sullivan

Mikkel Berg-Nordlie is a researcher at NIBR – Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research. He is currently writing a history PhD at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway. His research is mainly on political organisation, representation, governance and discourses related to indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities particularly in, but not limited to, Russia and the Nordic countries.Jo Saglie is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway and Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Sámi University College in Guovdageaidnu, Norway. His main research interests include party organisations and intra-party democracy, local elections and local democracy, as well as indigenous politics.Ann Sullivan is a member of the northern Ngapuhi tribe of New Zealand. She is an Associate Professor of Maori Studies and co-Head of Te Wananga o Waipapa/School of Maori Studies and Pacific Studies, University of Auckland. Her main research interests are Maori electoral behaviour, representation and public police policy. Her teaching covers a range of areas of Maori development with an emphasis on public policy.