Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor, Political Science
[email protected]Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. (Political Science); Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI), Engineering Doctorate (Mathematical Statistics); Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Undergraduate Degree (Political Science); National Technical University of Athens, Undergraduate Degree (Engineering)Highlighted Work and Publications
Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible
George Tsebelis, D. Finke, T. Koenig, S.O. Proksch
For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty revisions. In late 2009, however, the EU was successfully reformed through the Treaty of Lisbon. Reforming the European Union examines how political leaders ratified this treaty against all odds and shows how this victory involved all stages of treaty reform negotiations--from the initial proposal ...
See MoreVeto Players: How Political Institutions Work
George Tsebelis
Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments are structured. The real distinctions between political systems, contends George Tsebelis, are to be found in the extent to which they...
See MoreNested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics
George Tsebelis
Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions (University of California Press).
Publisher: University of California Press
Year of Publication: 1991