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George Tsebelis

Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor
Ph.D. Washington University (St. Louis)

6759 Haven Hall
(734) 647-5932
tsebelis@umich.edu

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Research Interests:

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 Russel Sage Foundation, and the Herber 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.

Selected Publications

  • “Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in Latin America” (with E. Aleman) World Politics 57 (3): 396-420
    --Translated into Spanish in POSTData 12, April-May 2007
  • “Veto Players and Decisionmaking in the EU after Nice: Policy Stability and Judicial/Bureaucratic Discretion” (June 2002 with X. Yataganas) Journal of Common Market Studies 40 (2): 283-308
  • “Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis” American Political Science Review 93 (Sept. 1999): 591-608 (Runner Up Luebbert Award 2000)
    --Reprinted in Gary Goertz and Harvey Starr Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology, and Applications 2002 Rowman & Littlefield p. 249-276
    --Reprinted in H. Doering and M. Hallerberg Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior 2004 Ashgate
  • "Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism, and Multipartyism" (July 1995) British Journal of Political Science 25: 289-326 (Gregory Luebbert Award 1996)
    --Translated into Portuguese in Revista Braseliera de Ciencias Sociales 34 (1997): 89-117
    --Translated into Spanish in Sebastian Saiegh and Mariano Tommasi eds. La Nueva Economia Politica: Rationalidad e Instituciones Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (p 289-339)
    --Translated into Greek in Review of Social Research (special edition) 2003: 3-72
  • "The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda-Setter" (March 1994) American Political Science Review 88:128-42 (Pi Sigma Alpha Award 1993)
    --Reprinted in D. Ruloff and G. Schneider, eds. Towards a New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration Praeger (1995: 75-110)
    --Reprinted in D. Chalmers, ed. European Union Law: Texts and Analysis Vol. 1. Ashgate Publishing 1998 --Reprinted in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre ed. Institutionalism Sage Publications, London, June 2007
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