Events & Calendars "Strong Constitutions: Social-Cognitive Origins of the Separation of Powers"

Maxwell A. Cameron (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989) specializes in comparative politics (Latin America) and international political economy. He recently published "Strong Constitutions" (Oxford University Press, 2013) and will come to Amherst to speak about it.

Cameron’s previous publications include "Democracy and Authoritarianism in Peru" (St. Martin's 1994), "The Peruvian Labyrinth" (Penn State University Press, 1997), "The Political Economy of North American Free Trade" (McGill-Queen's 1993), "Democracy and Foreign Policy" (Carleton, 1995), "To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines" (Oxford, 1998), "The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal Was Done" (Cornell, 2000), "Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change" (Lynne Rienner, 2010), "Democracia en la Region Andina" (IEP, 2010) and "New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America" (Palgrave, 2012). As director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, he coordinated the organization of the first UBC Summer Institute for Future Legislators. In 2011-12 Cameron was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, where he organized a colloquium series on Aristotle’s idea of “practical wisdom” and its relevance in politics today.

Cameron's talk is sponsored by the Amherst College Political Science Department, the Lamont Lecture Fund, and the Lurcy Lecture Fund.

This event is free and open to the public.