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Thelen has strong connections abroad, particularly in Europe. She is a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne, Germany), and has also held appointments as a research fellow or visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), Sciences Po (Paris), and the Copenhagen Business School. She was chair of the Council for European Studies (2002-06) and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008-09). Her past contributions to the APSA include service as an officer in several organized sections (Comparative Politics, Politics and History, Qualitative Methods, and European Politics and Society). |
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Kathleen Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. She received her BA from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her empirical research focuses on the political economy of the rich democracies, and she has also made contributions to the literature on historical institutionalism. She is the author, most recently, of How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2004; co-winner of the APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and winner of the Mattei Dogan Award of the Society for Comparative Research) and coeditor of two volumes on institutional change, Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2010, with James Mahoney) and Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (Oxford University Press, 2005, with Wolfgang Streeck).