Judith Best

Judith Best

Background:

M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D. Cornell University. Dr. Best has been a member of the Cortland faculty since 1973.

Teaching Areas:

Political theory, American Government, American Political Thought, and Jurisprudence.

Publications:

  • The Choice of the People? Debating the Electoral College, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.
  • National Representation for the District of Columbia, University Publications of America, 1984.
  • The Mainstream of Western Political Thought, Human Science Press, 1980.
  • The Case Against Direct Election of the President: A Defense of the Electoral College, Cornell University Press, 1975.
  • Dr. Best has contributed chapters to various books including: The Framers of the Constitution and Fundamental Rights, American Enterprise Institute, 1991; The Fettered Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, 1989; The Law of Presidential Power, Carolina Academic Press, 1988; The New Federalist Papers, University Press of America, 1988; The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution, Macmillan, 1987; The Crisis of Liberal Democracy, SUNY Press, 1987.

Awards and Honors:

  • Dr. Best has served at the request of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, from 1975 through 1992, as an expert witness on the Electoral College system. She has also spoken on the issue on national radio programs, for the Twentieth Century Fund, and the Freedom Forum.
  • Dr. Best has been an invited presenter at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting, at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, at symposiums sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, and at the Annual Leadership Conferences of the Center for the Study of the Presidency.
  • Served as co-project director and co-course coordinator for this multi year project.
  • Awarded the title of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor by the SUNY Chancellor and the Board of Trustees.
  • Awarded the American Higher Education and the Carnegie Foundation Honor Salute for Educational Leadership.
  • Gerald DiGuisto Award for the Outstanding Member of the Faculty.


 

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