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Kathleen Thelen Ph.D.
California-Berkeley
Associate Professor; Comparative Politics, Western European politics, political economy of labor in the advanced industrial countries.

Her teaching and research interests include union movements, social democracy, and the welfare state in the advanced capitalist democracies. She is the author of Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany and co-editor of Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis.

She is currently working on a comparative study that examines the historical evolution of cross-national differences in institutions for labor representation at the plant level, as well as an edited volume that explores alternative approaches to the study of labor. 

[e-mail: thelen@northwestern.edu]

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