Faculty and Researchers Kathleen Thelen Faculty Director, MIT-Scandinavia Program, MIT-Germany Program, MIT-Switzerland Program Ford International Professor of Political Science
Email kthelen@mit.edu Website https://www.kathleenthelen.com/ Expertise Political economy Historical institutionalism Labor politics Social policy Advanced industrial countries
BookAttention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy Kathleen Thelen Princeton University Press
BookThe American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press
BookStrategies for Social Inquiry: Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press
BookVarieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press
BookExplaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press
NewsSupersize me Kathleen Thelen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and faculty director of MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germany, and MIT-Switzerland, explains how America’s large retailers got large in her new book. April 08, 2025