| George Tsebelis | |
| Nationality: | Greek |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Occupation: | Political scientist |
| Awards: | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Website: | https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/tsebelis/ |
| Education: | National Technical University of Athens Sciences Po Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Alma Mater: | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Thesis Title: | Parties and Activists: A Comparative Study of Parties and Party Systems |
| Thesis Url: | https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b1145865~S2 |
| Thesis Year: | 1985 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | John Sprague |
| Discipline: | Political science |
| Workplaces: | University of Michigan University of California, Los Angeles |
| Doctoral Students: | Amie Kreppel |
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.
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, (2002).[4]