- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Affiliation
- Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester
Projects
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Digital Capitalism
This project is about digital capitalism, and more specifically, the emergence of a new gig economy associated with the rise of new platform business models such as Uber, Upwork, TaskRabbit, Helpling, and others. -
Digital State Capitalism: African Smart Cities and a Game-Theoretic Perspective on Global Data Governance in Flux
The increasing digitalisation of international trade deepens globalisation, and data flows play a key role in this transformation.
Related to this person
publication
Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power
Culpepper, Pepper D., and Kathleen Thelen. 2019. Are We All Amazon Primed? Consumers and the Politics of Platform Power. Comparative Political Studies, 001...
public lecture / seminar
Regulating Uber: The politics of the platform economy - Public lecture by Kathleen Thelen
Lessons from the rich democracies show that Uber can be regulated but countries have to act quickly or mobilise consumers to the cause.
event
STIAS Lecture Series 2019: Kathleen Thelen - Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in the United States and Europe
Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Immediate Past President of the American Political Science Associationand STIAS fellowwill present a talk with the title: Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in the United States and Europe Abstract This talk uses the case of the transportation network company Uber as a lens to explore the comparative political economy of the platform economy in Europe and the United States.