2026 George Tsebelis: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	50	227	202	134	114	122	26436

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

George Tsebelis is a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Law, Economics and Econometrics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The research topics that George Tsebelis covers include:

Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Legal and Constitutional Studies
American Constitutional Law and Politics
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Media Influence and Politics
Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies

Their recent publications include the following papers:

Constitutional Rigidity Matters: A Veto Players Approach, 2021, British Journal of Political Science
Review symposium: Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism, 2023, European Political Science
Why Are Constitutional Amendments in Mexico so Frequent?, 2024, Journal of Politics in Latin America
What Determines the Judicial Discretion of the European Court of Human Rights?, 2022, The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

George Tsebelis has published research in various academic venues, including:

British Journal of Political Science
Journal of European Public Policy
European Political Science
Journal of Politics in Latin America
The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

Their frequent coauthors are:

Jesse Crosson
Michael Thies
José Antônio Cheibub
Rosalind Dixon
Daniel Bogéa

The researcher has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016. Additionally, they received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1993.

Best Publications

Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work

George Tsebelis

7532
Citations
Decision Making in Political Systems Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism

George Tsebelis

4122
Citations
Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics

George Tsebelis

2667
Citations
The power of the European Parliament as a conditional agenda setter

George Tsebelis

1132
Citations
Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis

George Tsebelis

1060
Citations
Legislative Politics in the European Union

George Tsebelis;Geoffrey Garrett

797
Citations
Veto Players and Institutional Analysis

George Tsebelis

789
Citations
An institutional critique of intergovernmentalism

Geoffrey Garrett;George Tsebelis

785
Citations
The Institutional Foundations of Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism in the European Union

George Tsebelis;Geoffrey Garrett

636
Citations
Bicameralism: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF BICAMERALISM AND IMPLICATIONS

George Tsebelis;Jeannette Money

402
Citations
Coalition Formation in the European Parliament

Amie Kreppel;George Tsebelis

368
Citations
THE ABUSE OF PROBABILITY IN POLITICAL ANALYSIS: THE ROBINSON CRUSOE FALLACY

George Tsebelis

329
Citations
Veto players and the structure of budgets in advanced industrialized countries

George Tsebelis;Eric C. C. Chang

322
Citations
Are Sanctions Effective?: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

George Tsebelis

311
Citations
Veto Players and Referendums around the World

Simon Hug;George Tsebelis

276
Citations
Legislative Procedures in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis

George Tsebelis;Christian B. Jensen;Anastassios Kalandrakis;Amie Kreppel

252
Citations
Veto Players and Decision-making in the EU After Nice

George Tsebelis;Xenophon Yataganas

246
Citations
Why Resist the Temptation to Apply Power Indices to the European Union

Geoffrey Garrett;George Tsebelis

239
Citations
PROCESSO DECISÓRIO EM SISTEMAS POLÍTICOS: veto players no presidencialismo, parlamentarismo, multicameralismo e pluripartidarismo (*)

George Tsebelis

219
Citations
Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in Latin America

George Tsebelis;Eduardo Alemán

212
Citations
More on the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter: Response to Moser

George Tsebelis

201
Citations
Agenda setting power, power indices, and decision making in the European union

George Tsebelis;Geoffrey Garrett

186
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Garrett University of Southern California

Thomas König University of Mannheim

Marc Debus University of Mannheim

Jon Elster Columbia University

Peter C. Ordeshook California Institute of Technology

Eric C. Chang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Vivien A. Schmidt Boston University

Simon Hug University of Geneva

Fritz W. Scharpf Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

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