Scott Spitzer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science | CSUF Town Hall Meeting Director
Phone: (657) 278 - 3771
Email: sspitzer@fullerton.edu
Office: GH 526
Office Hours:
T/TH 3:00-4:30PM
or by appointment
Degrees
- Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University 2000
- B.A. cum laude, English and American Literature, with Department Honors Brandeis University 1987
Research Areas
- Graduate Seminar in American Political Development (514)
- Media and Politics (448)
- Urban Politics and Policymaking (427)
- Presidents and the Presidency (416)
- Introduction to American Politics (100)
- Professor Spitzer has also proposed a new course – The Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (325) – which is awaiting final approval by the Academic Senate.
Publications
Journal Articles:
- “Nixon’s New Deal: Welfare Reform for the Silent Majority.” 2012. Presidential Studies Quarterly 42 (3):
455-481. - “The Emergence of Race in Congressional Welfare Policymaking: the 1962 and 1967 Amendments to AFDC.” 2012. The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 5 (1): 75-112.
Other publications:
- “Race and Ethnicity in California Politics,” 2015. Chapter 5 in California Politics
in National Perspective, 8th edition, edited by Yuan Ting, Shelly Arsneault, and Stephen Stambough. New York: Kendall Hunt Publishing. - “The Governor of California and the American President,” 2015. Chapter 7 in California Politics in National Perspective, 8th edition, edited by Yuan Ting, Shelly Arsneault, and Stephen Stambough. New York: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
- “Executive Leadership: The Governor of California and the American President,” 2011. Chapter 7 in California Politics in National Perspective, 7th edition, edited by Yuan Ting, Shelly Arsneault, and Stephen Stambough. New York: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
- “Welfare,” 2011. Pp. 819-826 in Governing America: Major Decisions of Federal, State and Local Governments
from1789 to the Present, Volume I, edited by Paul J. Quirk and William Cunion. New York: Facts on File. - “The ‘New’ Nixon Library.” 2010. The Western: Newsletter of the Western Political Science Association 2
(Spring): 3-10. - “Executive Leadership: The Governor of California and the American President.” 2009. Chapter 7 in California Politics in National Perspective, 6th edition, edited by Phillip Gianos and Yuan Ting. New York: Kendall Hall Publishing, 2009.