Kathleen Thelen

Kathleen Thelen is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), and a faculty associate at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University.

Kathleen Thelen
Born1956
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Kansas
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
Institutions
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Princeton University
  • Northwestern University

She is known for her research on political-economic institutions, as well as her frameworks for understanding institutional stability and change. She is influential in the field of historical institutionalism.

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