Dr. Charles Cameron

Biography

Charles Cameron is a professor jointly appointed at the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He specializes in the analysis of political institutions, particularly in relation to courts, law, the American presidency, and legislatures. His work often combines game theory and quantitative methods with historical materials. He has authored numerous articles in leading journals of political science, law, and economics. Cameron wrote 'Veto Bargaining: Presidents, Politics, Negative Power' (Cambridge, 2000) and co-authored 'Making the Supreme Court: Politics, Appointments, 1930-2020' (Oxford University Press, 2023). His accolades include the Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association and the William Riker Award for his contributions to political economy. Cameron is also a contributor to 'Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, Information, U.S. Policy Making' (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Visiting Scholar at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he taught for 15 years at Columbia University. Cameron holds an M.P.A. and a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from Princeton University and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014. Outside of academia, he is an avid horseman and a fan of classical portraits.

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