Congratulations to George Tsebelis for being awarded his third Honorary Degree in Economics and Political Science!

La Statale News articles, published on September 22, 2025, reads, "Today the University of Milan awarded George Tsebelis an honorary Master's degree in Economics and Political Science for 'his outstanding and long-lasting contribution to the study of comparative politics and the understanding of decision-making processes within democratic institutions; for his innovative application of economic analysis techniques to the study of political phenomena; for the remarkable clarity and strong methodological rigour permeating all his works', as stated in the citation."

"The ceremony, which was held entirely in English in the University's main conference room, opened with the welcome remarks by the Rector of the University, Marina Brambilla, and an introduction by Alessandro Missale, Head of the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods. After the Laudatio by Francesco Zucchini, Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan, titled 'Reading Political Institutions as a Game. The Intellectual Legacy of George Tsebelis', George Tsebelis gave a Lectio Magistralis titled 'Cannot Understand Politics without Following the Decisions'."

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 (1991 U of California Press), Bicameralism (coauthored; 1997 Cambridge UP), Veto Players (2002, Princeton UP), and Reforming the European Union (coauthored; 2013 Princeton UP); Changing the Rules is forthcoming (April 2025) with Cambridge UP. 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. 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.