Published Articles

“Comments on semi‑parliamentarism” 2023. In Review symposium: Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism. European Political Science. DOI:10.1057/s41304-023-00426-9.

“Multiple Vote Systems: A Remedy for Political Polarization” (with Jesse Crosson) 2022. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(6), 932–952. DOI:10.1080/13501763.2021.1901962.

What Determines the Judicial Discretion of the European Court of Human Rights?” 2022. European Court of Human Rights Law Review 3, 301-310. DOI:10.1163/26663236-bja10047.

Constitutional Rigidity Matters 2021. British Journal of Political Science 52(1), 280-299. DOI:10.1017/S0007123420000411.

“Constitutions and Judicial Discretion” 2020. In Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights in Times of Illiberal Democracies (pp. 373-385). NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI.

“Can the Dutch Electoral System be Improved Upon?” (with Jesse Crosson) 2020. Munich Social Sciences Review, New Series 3, 63-80.

“How Can We Keep Direct Democracy and Avoid ‘Kolotoumba’.” 2018. Homo Oeconomicus35(1-2), 81-90. DOI:10.1007/s41412-018-0069-4

“Back to the Pinochet Constitution: A Response.” 2018. Política y gobierno25(2), 501-510.

“Jugadores de veto y cambio constitucional¿ Se puede desbloquear la Constitución de Pinochet?/Veto Players and Constitutional Change: Can Pinochet’s Constitution Be Unlocked?” 2018.  Política y gobierno25(1), 3-30.

The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions.” 2017. Summer Bulletin of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 42-45.

The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions: Evidence from the World.” 2017. European Journal of Political Research 56, 820-845. DOI:10.1111/1475-6765.12206.

“Compromesso astorico: the role of the Senate after the Italian constitutional reform.” 2016. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 1–18. DOI:10.1017/ipo.2016.21.

“Introduction”, “Conclusions” (with E. Aleman) 2016. In Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Oxford UP. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198777861.001.0001.

“Lessons from the Greek crisis.” 2015. Journal of European Public Policy 23(1), 25-41. DOI:10.1080/13501763.2015.1087215

“A Long Constitution is a (Positively) Bad Constitution: Evidence from OECD Countries.” (with Dominic J. Nardi, Jr.) 2014. British Journal of Political Science 46(2), 457-478. DOI: 10.1017/S0007123414000441

“The Greek Constitution From a Political Science Point of View.” 2014. Greek Political Science Review 42, 145-72. DOI:10.12681/hpsa.14575

“Suspending Vetoes: How the Euro Countries Achieved Unanimity in the Fiscal Compact.” (with Hyeonho Hahm) 2014. Journal of European Public Policy 21(10), 1388-1411. DOI:10.1080/13501763.2014.929167.

“Coalition Theory: A Veto Players Approach” (with EunYoung Ha) 2014. European Political Science Review 6(3), 331-357. DOI:10.1017/S1755773913000106.

“Bridging qualified majority and unanimity decisionmaking in the EU” 2013. Journal of European Public Policy 20(8), 1083-1103. DOI:10.1080/13501763.2013.788368.

“Political Parties and Government Coalitions in the Americas” (with E. Aleman) 2011. Journal of Politics in Latin America 3(1), 3-28. DOI:10.1177/1866802X1100300101.

“The rules of decisionmaking in EU institutions” 2011. In Thomas Eger & Hans-Bernd Schäfer (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of the European Union Law (pp. 29-54). Edward Elgar. DOI: 10.4337/9781781005279.

“Veto Player Theory and Policy Change: An Introduction” 2010. In T. Koenig, M. Debus, & G. Tsebelis (Eds.), Reform processes and policy change: Veto players and decision-making in modern democracies (pp. 3-18). Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4419-5809-9.

“Introduction”, “Conclusions” (with Bjørn Erik Rasch) 2010. In B.E. Rasch & G. Tsebelis (Eds.), The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting (pp. 1-20, 270-273). Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9780203837429.

“Agenda Setting and Executive Dominance in Politics.” 2009. In S. Ganghof, C. Hönnige, & C. Stecker (Eds.), Parlamente, Agendasetzung und Vetospieler (pp. 13-24). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. DOI:10.1007/978-3-531-91773-3_2.

“Thinking about the Recent Past and the Future of the EU” 2008. JCMS lecture. Journal of Common Market Studies 46(2), 265-292. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00788.x.

“Veto Players, Agenda Setting, and Politics” (in Japanese) 2007. In Hideko Magara (Ed.), Veto Players and Policy Change. Waseda University Press.

“Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in the Former Communist Countries”(with T. Rizova) 2007. Comparative Political Studies 40(10), 1155-82. DOI:10.1177/0010414006288979.

“The Art of Political Manipulation in the European Convention”(with S.O. Proksch) 2007. Journal of Common Market Studies 45(1), 157-86. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00707.x.

“The European Convention and the Rome and Brussels IGCs: A Veto Players Analysis” 2005. In T. König & S. Hug (Eds.), Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution. A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries (pp. 9-22). ECPR/Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9780203965801.

“Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in Latin America” (with E. Aleman) 2005. World Politics 57(3), 396-420. DOI:10.1353/wp.2006.0005.

“The Treaty of Nice, the Convention Proposal, and the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: A Veto Players Analysis”(with X. Yataganas) 2005. European Constitutional Law Review 1(3), 429-51. DOI:10.1017/S1574019605004293.

“Assessing the Contributions of the DOSEI Project” 2005. European Union Politics 6(3), 377-90. DOI:10.1177/1465116505054838.

“The Origins of Presidential Conditional Agenda-Setting Power in Latin America” (with E. Aleman) 2005. Latin American Research Review 40(2), 3-26. DOI:10.1353/lar.2005.0017.

“Institutional Analyses of the EU” 2004. In C. Lequesne & Yves Surel (Eds.), European integration between institutionalization and reconversion of the State (pp. 117-41). Presses des Sciences Politiques. DOI:10.3917/scpo.leques.2004.01.0117.

“Veto Players and the Structure of Budgets in Advanced Industrialized Countries” (with Eric Chang) 2004. European Journal of Political Research 43(3), 449-76. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2004.00161.x.

“Federalism and Veto Players” 2002. In U. Wagschal & H. Rentsch (Eds.), Der Preis des Föderalismus (pp. 295-318). Orell Füssli.

“Veto Players and Referendums around the World” (with S. Hug) 2002. Journal of Theoretical Politics 14(4), 465-516. DOI:10.1177/095169280201400404.

“Veto Players and Decisionmaking in the EU after Nice: Policy Stability and Judicial/Bureaucratic Discretion” (with X. Yataganas) 2002. Journal of Common Market Studies 40(2): 283-308. DOI:10.1111/1468-5965.00355.

“Understanding Better the EU Legislative Process” (with G. Garrett) 2001. European Union Politics 2(3), 353-61. DOI:10.1177/1465116501002003005.

“Legislative Procedures in the EU: An Empirical Analysis” (with C. Jensen, A. Kalandrakis, & A. Kreppel) 2001. British Journal of Political Science 31(4), 573-99. DOI:10.1017/S0007123401000229.

“Even More Reasons to Resist the Temptation of Power Indices in the EU” (with G. Garrett) 2001. Journal of Theoretical Politics 13(1), 99-105. DOI:10.1177/0951692801013001005.

“The Institutional Foundations of Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism in the EU” (with G. Garrett) 2001. International Organization 55(2), 357-90. DOI:10.1162/00208180151140603.

“Veto Players and Institutional Analysis ” 2000. Governance 13(4), 441-74. DOI:10.1111/0952-1895.00141.

“Legislative Procedures in the European Union” (with G. Garrett) 2000. European Union Politics 1(1), 9-36. DOI:10.1177/1465116500001001002.

“Maastricht and the Democratic Deficit” 2000. In P. Moser, G. Schneider, & G. Kirchgässner (Eds.), Decision Rules in the European Union (pp. 16-47). DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-62792-9_2.

“More Reasons to Resist the Temptation of Power Indices in the EU” (with G. Garrett) 1999. Journal of Theoretical Politics 11(3), 331-38. DOI:10.1177/0951692899011003004.

“Why Resist the Temptation of Applying Power Indices in the EU” (with G. Garrett) 1999. Journal of Theoretical Politics 11(3), 291-308. DOI:10.1177/0951692899011003001.

“Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis” 1999. American Political Science Review 93(3), 591-608. DOI:10.2307/2585576.

“European Parliament and Environmental Legislation: The Case of Chemicals” (with A. Kalandrakis) 1999. European Journal of Political Research 36(1), 119-154. DOI:10.1111/1475-6765.00465.

“Coalition Formation in the European Parliament” (with A. Kreppel) 1999. Comparative Political Studies 32(8), 933-66. DOI:10.1177/0010414099032008002.

“The History of Conditional Agenda Setting in European Institutions” (with A. Kreppel) 1998. European Journal of Political Research 33(1), 41-71. DOI:10.1023/A:1006830805044.

“More on the Co-Decision Endgame” (with G. Garrett) 1997. Journal of Legislative Studies 3(4), 139-43. DOI:10.1080/13572339708420533.

“Rational Choice and Culture” 1997. Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics 8 (Summer), 15-18.

“Agenda Setting, Vetoes, and the EU’s Codecision Procedure” (with G. Garrett) 1997. Journal of Legislative Studies 3(3), 74-92. DOI:10.1080/13572339708420519.

“An Institutional Critique of Intergovernmentalism” (with G. Garrett) 1996. International Organization 50(2), 269-99. DOI:10.1017/S0020818300028563.

“Agenda Setting Power, Power Indices and Decision Making in the European Union” (with G. Garrett) 1996. International Review of Law and Economics 16(3), 345-61. DOI:10.1016/0144-8188(96)00021-X.

“More on the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter” 1996. American Political Science Review 90(4), 839-44. DOI:10.2307/2945847.

“Decisionmaking Inside the European Parliament” 1995. In B. Eichengreen, J. Frieden, & J. von Hagen (Eds.), Politics and Institutions in an Integrated Europe (pp. 42-64). Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-57811-3_3.

Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies 1995. In H. Doering (Ed.), Parliaments in Western Europe: Majority Rule and Minority Rights (pp. 83-111). St. Martin’s Press.

“Patterns of Bicameralism” (with B.E. Rasch) 1995. In H. Doering (Ed.), Parliaments in Western Europe: Majority Rule and Minority Rights (pp. 365-90). St. Martin’s Press.

“Strikes Around the World: A Game Theoretic Approach” (with P. Lange). 1995. In S. Jacoby (Ed.), The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy (pp. 101-26). Oxford UP.

“The Political Power of the French Senate: Micromechanisms of Bicameral Negotiations” (with J. Money) 1995. Journal of Legislative Studies 1(2), 192-217. DOI:10.1080/13572339508420425.

“Conditional Agenda-Setting and Decisionmaking Inside the European Parliament” (1995) Journal of Legislative Studies 1(1), 65-93. DOI:10.1080/13572339508420415.

“Bicameral Negotiations: The Navette System in France” (with J. Money) 1995. British Journal of Political Science 25(1), 101-29. DOI:10.1017/S0007123400007080.

“Another Response to Gordon Tullock” 1995. Journal of Theoretical Politics 7(1), 97-99. DOI:10.1177/0951692895007001006.

“Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism, and Multipartyism” 1995. British Journal of Political Science 25(3), 289-326. DOI:10.1017/S0007123400007225.

“Wages, Strikes, and Power: An Equilibrium Analysis” (with P. Lange) 1994. In J. Booth, P. James, & H. Meadwell (Eds.), Politics and Rationality (pp. 132-64). Cambridge UP.

“Monitoring Unemployment Benefits in Comparative Perspective” (with R. Stephen) 1994. Political Research Quarterly 46(4), 793-820. DOI:10.1177/106591299404700401.

“The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda-Setter” 1994. American Political Science Review 88(1), 128-42. DOI:10.2307/2944886.

“Monitoring in Networks and Hierarchies: Congress and Organizations” 1993. In Fritz Scharpf (Ed.), Games in Hierarchies and Networks (pp. 351-86). Campus.

“Penalty and Crime: Further Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence” 1993. Journal of Theoretical Politics 5(3), 349-74. DOI:10.1177/0951692893005003003.

“Cicero’s Puzzle: Upper House Power in Comparative Perspective” (with J. Money) 1992. International Political Science Review 13(1), 25-43. DOI:10.1177/019251219201300103.

“Response to Thomas Mayer” 1991. Rationality and Society 3(2), 269-71. DOI:10.1177/1043463191003002010.

“The Effects of Fines on Regulated Industries: Game Theory vs. Decision Theory” 1991. Journal of Theoretical Politics 3(1), 81-101. DOI:10.1177/0951692891003001006.

“Response to Gordon Tullock” 1991. Rationality and Society 3(1), 144-47. DOI:10.1177/1043463191003001011.

“Response to Anatol Rapoport” 1990. Rationality and Society 2(4), 512-6. DOI:10.1177/1043463190002004010.

“Penalty Has No Impact on Crime: A Game Theoretic Analysis” 1990. Rationality and Society 2(3), 255-86. DOI:10.1177/1043463190002003002.

“Crime and Punishment: Are One-Shot, Two-Person Games Enough?” (Controversy with W. Bianco and P. Ordeshook) 1990. American Political Science Review 84(2), 569-86. DOI:10.2307/1963536.

“Are Sanctions Effective? A Game Theoretic Analysis” 1990. Journal of Conflict Resolution 34(1), 3-28. DOI:10.1177/0022002790034001001.

“Elite Interaction and Institution-Building in Consociational Democracies” 1990. Journal of Theoretical Politics 2(1), 5-29. DOI:10.1177/0951692890002001001.

“Coercion and Revolution: Variations on a Predator-Prey Model”(with J. Sprague) 1989. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 12(4/5), 547-60. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-08-037243-3.50017-6.

“The Abuse of Probability in Political Analysis: The Robinson Crusoe Fallacy” 1989. American Political Science Review 83(1), 77–91. DOI:10.2307/1956435.

“When Do Allies Become Rivals?” 1988. Comparative Politics 20(2), 233-40. DOI:10.2307/421668.

“Nested Games: The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions” 1988. British Journal of Political Science 18(2), 145-70. DOI:10.1017/S0007123400005044.

“Book Review: Making Sense of Marx, by Jon Elster” 1986. American Political Science Review 80(4), 1320-1322. DOI:10.2307/1960872.

“A General Model of Tactical and Inverse Tactical Voting” 1986. British Journal of Political Science 16(3), 395-404. DOI:10.1017/S0007123400004464.

“Note on Przeworski and Wallerstein” 1984. American Political Science Review 78(3), 785-87. DOI:10.1017/S0003055400255299.

“Geographie Electorale de la Grece: Analyse des Attitudes de Vote aux Scrutins Nationaux de 1958 a 1977” 1979. Cahiers de l’Analyse des Donnees 4(4), 423-36.

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