James Ceaser

James W. Ceaser is professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976. He has also held visiting appointments at Marquette University, the University of Basel, Claremont McKenna College, the University of Bordeaux, and Harvard University. Dr. Ceaser is author of Nature and History in American Political Development (2006), and coauthor, with Andrew Busch, of The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election (2001), Losing to Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics (1997), and Upside Down and inside Out: The 1992 Elections and American Politics (1993). He is also the author of Presidential Selection (1979), Reforming the Reforms (1984), Liberal Democracy and Political Science (1991), and Reconstructing America (1997). Professor Ceaser received his doctorate in government from Harvard University in 1976.