Kathleen Thelen

Thelen is Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. She studies the origins and development of politicaleconomic institutions in advanced capitalism. She recently completed an edited volume together with James Mahoney: Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (2010). Other recent works include How Institutions Evolve (co-recipient of the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Prize and winner of the 2006 Mattei Dogan prize) and Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (with W. Streeck). Her current research projects center on the politics of coordination in “coordinated market economies,” and the evolution of institutions of federalism in Germany and the United States. Thelen is a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute in Cologne and was recently inducted into the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.