- Nationality
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Affiliation
- Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2019 1st Semester
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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.
Article
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.
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...