George Tsebelis

{{short description|American political scientist}}

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| citizenship = United States

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| occupation = Political scientist

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| 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

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| thesis_year = 1985

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| doctoral_advisor = John Sprague

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| discipline = Political science

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| workplaces = University of Michigan
University of California, Los Angeles

| doctoral_students = Amie Kreppel

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George Tsebelis is a Greek-American political scientist who specializes in comparative politics and formal modeling.{{Cite web|title=George Tsebelis Interview|url=https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bagss/magazine/the-research-talks/george-tsebelis-interview/|access-date=2021-04-25|website=www.uni-bamberg.de|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|url = http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.tsebelisgeorge_ci.detail|title = George Tsebelis|date = |accessdate = 13 December 2014|website = |publisher = University of Michigan|last = |first = |archive-date = 14 December 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141214093453/http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.tsebelisgeorge_ci.detail|url-status = dead}} Tsebelis was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy's 2016 class.{{Cite web|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/news-events/all-news/tsebelis-to-join-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences.html|title=Tsebelis to join American Academy of Arts and Sciences {{!}} U-M LSA Political Science|website=lsa.umich.edu|access-date=2016-12-20}}