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Charles M. Cameron
International Affairs Building, Room 725
Associate Professor of Political Science (on leave)
Phone: 212-854-4302
cmc1@columbia.edu
Biography:
Charles Cameron is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in applied formal theory and political institutions.
Professor Cameron's work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, as well as scholarly journals in economics and law. He is the author of Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Currently, he is researching a book (with Jeffrey Segal and Donald Songer) on the politics of hierarchy.
Professor Cameron received his M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He has taught at Columbia since 1989, and from 2001-2003, he served as the Director of the Master of Public Administration program. In addition, he has taught at SUNY Stony Brook and New York University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Cameron has been the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation as well as the American Political Science Association's Fenno Prize.