12 Facts About Kathleen Thelen

Kathleen Thelen is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics.

Kathleen Thelen is the Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a permanent external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and a faculty associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Kathleen Thelen is known for her research on political-economic institutions, as well as her frameworks for understanding institutional stability and change.

Kathleen Thelen is influential in the field of historical institutionalism.

Kathleen Thelen did her PhD thesis on labor relations in Germany.

Kathleen Thelen is a leading authority on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in the rich democracies.

Kathleen Thelen is among the most highly cited political scientists.

Kathleen Thelen finds that the effects of these settlements were incremental, and can only be understood by making sense of specific types of long-run gradual change.

Kathleen Thelen has proposed a framework for understanding institutional change, which encompasses:.

Kathleen Thelen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2009.

Kathleen Thelen has been awarded honorary degrees at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the London School of Economics, the European University Institute in Florence and, most recently, the University of Copenhagen.

Kathleen Thelen was elected to serve as President of the American Political Science Association from 2017 to 2018.