Dr. Charles Cameron

Biography

Charles Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He specializes in the analysis of political institutions, particularly courts and law, the American presidency, and legislatures. His work often combines game theory and quantitative methods with historical materials. He has authored articles in leading journals of political science, law, and economics and has published significant books, including 'Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power' (Cambridge 2000) and 'Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments 1930-2020' (Oxford University Press 2023), co-authored with John Kastellec. Additionally, he has edited works such as 'Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, Information and U.S. Policy Making' (Cambridge University Press 2023). Cameron has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and has served as a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a recurrent visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and taught for 15 years at Columbia University before joining Princeton. 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 academic pursuits, he is an avid horseman.

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