Charles Cameron

Professor, Politics and Public/International Affairs, Princeton University

Charles Cameron is jointly appointed in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He specializes in the analysis of political institutions, particularly courts and law, the American presidency, and legislatures. The author of numerous articles in leading journals of political science, he is also the author of Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power (Cambridge UP 2000) which won the American Political Science Association's Fenno Prize, for best book in legislative studies, and William Riker Award, as best book in political economy. A recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, he has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Visiting Scholar at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, and has a recurrent visiting affiliation as Professor at New York University School of Law. He was inducted in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
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Blogs from Charles Cameron

How Donald Trump’s election victories in 2016 and 2024 locked in a conservative Supreme Court

Simulations suggest Trump’s Supreme Court appointments, combined with his 2024 re-election, will shape a conservative court for decades. Analysis shows how judicial retirements, presidential elections, and ideology shifts will likely cement lasting conservative influence.

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July 04, 2025