Kathleen Thelen

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
31 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Kathleen Thelen is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathleen Thelen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Kathleen Thelen's work include Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (5 papers) and Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 papers). Kathleen Thelen is often cited by papers focused on Social Policy and Reform Studies (11 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (5 papers) and Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 papers). Kathleen Thelen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Kathleen Thelen's co-authors include K. Sabeel Rahman, Pepper D. Culpepper, Ikuo Kume, Marius R. Busemeyer, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, James Mahoney, Paul Pierson, Lowell Turner, Alexander Hertel‐Fernandez and Jacob S. Hacker and has published in prestigious journals such as California Management Review, World Politics and Annual Review of Political Science.

In The Last Decade

Kathleen Thelen

27 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

How Institutions Evolve

2004 1.3k citations Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

2014 565 citations Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
The Rise of the Platform Business Model and the Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

2019 248 citations K. Sabeel Rahman, Kathleen Thelen Politics & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathleen Thelen United States	18	1.8k	1.2k	736	558	511	31	3.2k
Jonathan Zeitlin Netherlands	31	2.2k 1.2×	907 0.8×	655 0.9×	844 1.5×	276 0.5×	106	4.4k
Kathleen Thelen United States	15	3.2k 1.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	720 1.3×	832 1.6×	21	5.1k
Fred Block United States	26	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	341 0.5×	923 1.7×	341 0.7×	105	3.9k
Philip K. Porter United States	11	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	823 1.1×	1.4k 2.5×	572 1.1×	27	5.0k
Simon Deakin United Kingdom	29	661 0.4×	577 0.5×	688 0.9×	720 1.3×	473 0.9×	218	2.9k
Pepper D. Culpepper United States	22	1.2k 0.7×	635 0.5×	425 0.6×	352 0.6×	199 0.4×	49	2.3k
Glenn Morgan United Kingdom	31	520 0.3×	878 0.7×	551 0.7×	275 0.5×	216 0.4×	104	3.3k
Theodore J. Lowi United States	19	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	725 1.0×	667 1.2×	140 0.3×	93	4.0k
Bruce E. Kaufman United States	35	609 0.3×	988 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	998 1.8×	783 1.5×	160	3.8k
Ted Gaebler United States	5	1.2k 0.7×	758 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	407 0.7×	230 0.5×	12	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kathleen Thelen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathleen Thelen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thelen, Kathleen, et al.. (2025). Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition. Politics & Society.

Sen, Maya, et al.. (2025). Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes. Perspectives on Politics. 1–13. 1 indexed citations

Foster, Chase & Kathleen Thelen. (2024). Coordination Rights, Competition Law and Varieties of Capitalism. Comparative Political Studies. 58(6). 1199–1237. 2 indexed citations

Ibsen, Christian Lyhne & Kathleen Thelen. (2024). Arrangers and orchestrators: the diverging role of the state in Danish and German vocational education and training. Socio-Economic Review. 23(4). 1947–1973. 6 indexed citations

Foster, Chase & Kathleen Thelen. (2023). Brandeis in Brussels: Regulated Competition and Economic Coordination in the European Union. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Foster, Chase & Kathleen Thelen. (2023). Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union. Regulation & Governance. 18(4). 1083–1103. 5 indexed citations

Hacker, Jacob S., Alexander Hertel‐Fernandez, Paul Pierson, & Kathleen Thelen. (2021). The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance. Annual Review of Political Science. 25(1). 197–217. 22 indexed citations

Thelen, Kathleen. (2020). Employer Organization and the Law: American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective. Law and Contemporary Problems. 83(2). 23–48. 5 indexed citations

Rahman, K. Sabeel & Kathleen Thelen. (2019). The Rise of the Platform Business Model and the Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. Politics & Society. 47(2). 177–204. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Culpepper, Pepper D. & Kathleen Thelen. (2019). Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power. Comparative Political Studies. 53(2). 288–318. 168 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen. (2018). Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States. Perspectives on Politics. 16(4). 938–953. 218 indexed citations

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Ibsen, Christian Lyhne & Kathleen Thelen. (2017). Diverging Solidarity. World Politics. 69(3). 409–447. 32 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen. (2014). Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 565 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thelen, Kathleen, et al.. (2014). APSA’s Financial Operations, 2013–2014. PS Political Science & Politics. 48(1). 196–201.

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Hall, Peter A. & Kathleen Thelen. (2008). Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 12 indexed citations

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Martin, Cathie Jo & Kathleen Thelen. (2007). Varieties of Coordination and Trajectories of Change: Social Policy and Economic Adjustment in Coordinated Market Economies. 1–42. 10 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen & Ikuo Kume. (1999). The Effects of Globalization on Labor Revisited: Lessons from Germany and Japan. Politics & Society. 27(4). 477–505. 67 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen & Ikuo Kume. (1999). The Rise of Nonmarket Training Regimes: Germany and Japan Compared. Journal of Japanese Studies. 25(1). 33–33. 19 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen & Lowell Turner. (1998). Codetermination in Comparative Perspective. eCommons (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Thelen, Kathleen, James Fulcher, Wolfgang Streeck, Peter Swenson, & Lowell Turner. (1994). Beyond Corporatism: Toward a New Framework for the Study of Labor in Advanced Capitalism. Comparative Politics. 27(1). 107–107. 26 indexed citations

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