Kathleen Thelen
American political scientist (born 1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Born | 1956 |
Nationality | American |
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Fields | Political science |
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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]