Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor, Political Science
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 five books: Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics (1991 U of California Press), Bicameralism (coauthored; 1997 Cambridge UP), Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (2002, Princeton UP), Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible (coauthored; 2013 Princeton UP); Changing the Rules: Constitutional Amendments in Democracies (Cambridge UP 2025). His work has been reprinted and translated in several languages (Veto Players has been published in Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish). He has been elected in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received Fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Herbert Hoover Foundation. He is the William H. Riker Prize recipient in 2025, “in recognition of scholarly achievement that exemplifies and advances the scientific study of politics.” Some of his articles have received awards by the American Political Science Association. He has received honorary degrees by the Universities of Crete (2014), Athens (2024) and Milan (2025). He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on institutions, the European Union and advanced industrialized countries.
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Courses Taught:
- Comparative Politics (W. Europe, European Integration, Political Parties, Parliaments, Political Institutions)
- Game Theory
Fields of Study:
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Political Economy
- Formal Modeling
