Kathleen Thelen
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Thelen is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council for European Studies based at Columbia University. She is also a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany and Appointed Affiliated Visiting Professor at the International Center for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Thelen studies the origins, development, and effects of institutional arrangements that define distinctive "varieties of capitalism" across the developed democracies. Her two most recent books are Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (edited with Wolfgang Streeck, Oxford University Press, 2005) and How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (Cambridge University Press 2004), which was selected as co-winner of the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association for "the best book on government, politics, or international affairs."