George Tsebelis
George Tsebelis | |
|---|---|
| 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/ |
George Tsebelis is a Greek-American political scientist who specializes in comparative politics and formal modeling. 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. Tsebelis was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy's 2016 class and was named the 2025 William H. Riker Prize recipient "in recognition of a body of research that exemplifies and advances the scientific study of politics”. He also received honorary degrees from the Universities of Crete (2014) and the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024).