Kathleen Thelen

Kathleen Thelen
Kathleen Thelen
Born	1956
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley; University of Kansas;
	Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Princeton University; Northwestern University;

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.

She is known for her research on political-economic institutions, as well as her frameworks for understanding institutional stability and change.^[1] She is influential in the field of historical institutionalism.^[2]

^ Capoccia, Giovanni (2016). "When Do Institutions "Bite"? Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change". Comparative Political Studies. 49 (8): 1095–1127. doi:10.1177/0010414015626449. ISSN 0010-4140. S2CID 146602221.
^ Mahoney, James (2017). "Shift Happens: The Historical Institutionalism of Kathleen Thelen". PS: Political Science & Politics. 50 (4): 1115–1119. doi:10.1017/S1049096517001494. ISSN 1049-0965.

[:0-1] Capoccia, Giovanni (2016). "When Do Institutions "Bite"? Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change". Comparative Political Studies. 49 (8): 1095–1127. doi:10.1177/0010414015626449. ISSN 0010-4140. S2CID 146602221.

[:1-2] Mahoney, James (2017). "Shift Happens: The Historical Institutionalism of Kathleen Thelen". PS: Political Science & Politics. 50 (4): 1115–1119. doi:10.1017/S1049096517001494. ISSN 1049-0965.

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