Kenneth A. Bollen (born 1951) is the Henry Rudolf Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[1] He is also a member of the faculty in the Quantitative Psychology Program housed in the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory.
He is the author of several books and over a hundred papers,[1] which have attracted a very large number of citations over the years.
It integrated a diverse body of literature from several disciplines, and helped define the area of structural equation modeling (SEM).
He and colleagues delivered the first empirical estimates of the effects of British colonial history, world system position, and religious traditions on democracy.