Robert Spitzer

Robert J. Spitzer (Ph.D. Cornell, 1980) is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, College at Cortland.

His books include The Presidency and Public Policy (1983), The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics (1987), The Presidential Veto (1988), The Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution (1990), President and Congress (1993), Media and Public Policy (1993), The Politics of Gun Control (1995; 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2004; 4th ed. 2007), Politics and Constitutionalism (2000), The Right to Bear Arms (2001), Essentials of American Politics (co-authored, 2002; 2nd ed. 2006), and The Presidency and the Constitution (co-authored, 2005). He is also Series Editor for the book series "American Constitutionalism" for SUNY Press.

In 2003, he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Spitzer is the author of nearly 300 articles and papers appearing in many journals and books on a variety of American politics subjects. He served as President of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association from 2001-2003. He also served as a member of the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and has testified before Congress on several occasions. Spitzer has appeared on NBC's "Today Show,"ABC's "Good Morning America" and Network Nightly News, PBS's "News Hour With Jim Lehrer," CNN, CNBC, NHK Television (Japan), the PBS documentary film "Guns and Mothers," and has been quoted in or by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Enquirer, the Miami Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the Detroit Free Press, the Kansas City Star, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Newsday, the Denver Post, Toronto Globe, Congress Daily, The Hill, Rolling Stone, The Nation, the National Journal, The Spectator, Reuters, AP, Gannett, Knight Ridder, the BBC (Britain), CBC (Canada), ABC News Online, Fox News Online, National Public Radio, and CBS Radio, among others. His op-ed articles on gun control and other subjects have appeared in many newspapers around the country. He is also a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs program, "The Ivory Tower Half Hour," broadcast on WCNY-TV, Syracuse.

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