Charles M. Cameron

Scholar of American political institutions and an innovator in the testing of formal theoretical models with quantitative data. Book Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (2000) helped to reinvigorate the social scientific study of the American presidency and was awarded the Fenno Prize for the best book of the year on legislative politics and the Riker Prize for the best book on political economy. Contributions to the study of the federal judiciary, particularly his work on Supreme Court decision-making, nominations and confirmations, and judicial hierarchy is influential and widely cited. Leader among scholars in judicial politics deploying quantitative analysis and formal theory and a mentor of the new generation of political scientists. Currently working on issues related to presidential control and management of the federal bureaucracy.