Karen Orren

Political Scientist, Academic

1942 –

36

Who is Karen Orren?

Karen Orren is an American political scientist, noted for her research on American political institutions and social movements, analyzed in historical perspective, and for helping to stimulate the study of American political development.

Orren graduated with a B.A. from Stanford University, majoring in anthropology and political science. She then attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, completing her M.A. in political science in 1965 and her PhD degree in 1972. Her doctoral dissertation examined life insurance politics in Illinois. Orren is a professor of political science at UCLA, where she has taught since 1969.

Orren’s research considers political questions in broader historical settings and in the context of institutional change. In her first book, Corporate Power and Social Change, she studied corporate investment in housing over a century to illuminate the range of possible authority relations between government and business and account for the prevailing form.

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Born
1942
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, University of Chicago
    Political Science
    ( - 1972)
Employment
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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