George Tsebelis

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George Tsebelis

Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor

Office Location(s): 6759 Haaven Hall
734.647.5932
tsebelis@umich.edu
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  • Fields of Study
    • Comparative Government and Politics
    • Political Economy
    • Formal Modeling
  • About

    George Tsebelis works in Comparative Politics. He is a specialist in political institutions. His work uses Game Theoretic models to analyze the effects of institutions; it covers Western European countries and the European Union. More recent work studies institutions in Latin America and in countries of Eastern Europe. He is the author of three books: Nested Games (1991 U of California Press), Bicameralism (coauthored; 1997 Cambridge UP), and Veto Players (2002, Princeton UP). His work has been reprinted and translated in several languages (Veto Players is published or to be published in Chinese, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish). He has received Fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Herbert Hoover Foundation. Some of his articles have received awards by the American Political Science Association. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on institutions, the European Union and advanced industrialized countries.

  • Education
    • Washington University (St. Louis), Ph.D. in Political Science
    • Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI), Engineering Doctorate in Mathematical Statistics
    • Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Undergraduate Degree in Political Science
    • National Technical University of Athens, Undergraduate Degree in Engineering
  • Awards
    • Gregory Luebbert Award, Best Article Comparative Politics published in 1994 or 1995 (1996)
    • Pi Sigma Apha Award, Best Paper Presented at the 1992 APSA Meetings (1993)
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