Publications of Kathleen A. Thelen

Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic Discretion, Social Learning, and the Development of Regulated Competition in the European Union. In: Regulation & Governance 18(4), 2024, 1083–1103.

Institutional Sources of Business Power. In: World Politics 72(3), 2020, 448–480.

Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power. In: Comparative Political Studies 53(2), 2020, 288–318.

The Rise of the Platform Business Model and the Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism. In: Politics & Society 47(2), 2019, 177–204.

The American Precariat: U.S. Capitalism in Comparative Perspective. In: Perspectives on Politics 17(1), 2019, 5–27.

Transitions to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In: Comparative Politics 51(2), 2019, 295–315.

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

Diverging Solidarity: Labor Strategies in the New Knowledge Economy. In: World Politics 69(3), 2017, 409–447.

Gender in the Journals: Publication Patterns in Political Science. In: PS: Political Science & Politics 50(2), 2017, 433–447.

Duale Ausbildung und Personalpolitik: So gleich und doch so fremd?. In: Die Betriebswirtschaft 71(3), 2011, 217–234.

Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany. In: Politics & Society 38(1), 2010, 119–148.

SASE Annual Meeting 2009, Paris, France: Economic Regulation and Social Solidarity: Conceptual and Analytic Innovations in the Study of Advanced Capitalism. In: Socio-Economic Review 8(1), 2010, 187–207.

Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism. In: Socio-Economic Review 7(1), 2009, 7–34.

Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies. In: British Journal of Industrial Relations 47(3), 2009, 471–498.

The State and Coordinated Capitalism: Contributions of the Public Sector to Social Solidarity in Post-Industrial Societies. In: World Politics 60(1), 2007, 1–36.

Contemporary Challenges to the German Vocational Training System. In: Regulation & Governance 1(3), 2007, 247–260.

Coordination as a Political Problem in Coordinated Market Economies. In: Governance 19(1), 2006, 11–42.

Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy. Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.

Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Capitalism in Time: Laudatio. Köln, October 31, 2014.