Charles Oscar Jones (October 28, 1931 – January 3, 2024) was an American political scientist who was a non-resident senior fellow at theMiller Center of Public Affairs at theUniversity of Virginia.^[1] He was a graduate of theUniversity of South Dakota and theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.^[2] He was a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and aGuggenheim fellow.^[3] He was a leading scholar of American politics.^{[citation needed]} He was also a non-resident senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at The Brookings Institution. Jones wrote or edited 18 books and contributed over 100 articles and book chapters. He died on January 3, 2024, at the age of 92.^[4]

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Jones held a number of distinguished academic appointments, including:

• Professor of Political Science,University of Virginia
• Hawkins Professor of Political Science,University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Maurice Falk Professor of American Government, University of Pittsburgh
• John Olin Professor of American Government,Oxford University
• Non-resident senior fellow,Brookings Institution
• President,American Political Science Association
• President,Pi Sigma Alpha

Jones wrote broadly on American politics, but his primary focus was on the relationship between Congress and the President. He wrote a number of influential books, includingThe Presidency in a Separated System^[5] andAn Introduction to Public Policy.^[6]

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• Appearances onC-SPAN

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