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American political scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Tsebelis is a Greek-American political scientist who specializes in comparative politics and formal modeling.[1] He is currently Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
George Tsebelis | |
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Nationality | Greek |
Citizenship | United States |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Awards | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Academic background | |
Education | National Technical University of Athens Sciences Po Pierre and Marie Curie University |
Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis |
Thesis | Parties and Activists: A Comparative Study of Parties and Party Systems (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | John Sprague |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Institutions | University of Michigan University of California, Los Angeles |
Doctoral students | Amie Kreppel |
Website | https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/tsebelis/ |
He received undergraduate degrees in engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and in political science from Sciences Po. He received a doctorate in mathematical statistics from Pierre and Marie Curie University and one in political science from Washington University in St. Louis.[2] Tsebelis was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy's 2016 class.[3]
Tsebelis developed the theory of "veto players", set out in his best known work, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (2002).[4]