Persuading the vaccine-reluctant: Meet people where they are
The Hill published an op-ed written by Eagleton Director John J. Farmer, Jr. about the COVID vaccine and issues with public distrust. "Persuasion is never easy, particularly in an information environment in which sowing distrust in American institutions motivates extremists of the right and the left and authoritarian adversaries. But these data demonstrate that open and candid discussions that meet people where they are will never be a waste of time," wrote Professor Farmer. Gov. Murphy issues new public health emergency. Here are the powers it grants.
News 12 New Jersey interviewed Eagleton Associate Director and Center on the American Governor Director John Weingart about NewJersey Governor Phil Murphy issuing a new public health emergency. "Weingart studies the New Jersey governorship for Eagleton. He says laws like the Emergency Health Powers Act are designed to allow action in a fast, unfolding crisis... 'You do want a governor to be able to respond to unforeseen, unpredictable circumstances like what we’re in now. And not to say, ‘We hear people are getting real sick, let’s schedule a legislative hearing for 60 days from now,’ Weingart says." Let's stop fighting each other and tackle our common foe: the virus
The Hill published an op-ed written by Eagleton Director John J. Farmer, Jr. "Never, during the two-year course of COVID-19, have we recognized in any way that mattered that our primary adversary was the virus, and not each other... The result: In the simplest terms — with fatalities likely to approach 1 million in the United States and 7 million globally — we just fought World War III, humankind versus the virus, and the virus won because we fought each other primarily, instead of the disease," wrote Professor Farmer. Diversity in N.J. Legislature improves in 2022, but still doesn’t reflect the state
New Jersey Monitor interviewed CAWP Associate Director Jean Sinzdak about women in New Jersey politics. "There’s this whole other hidden process, where it seems like a group of elected men, mostly white, got together to talk about who the next Senate president would be in a diner. So we need to put a big sunlight on some of these processes to call attention to what’s happening," said Sinzdak.
2021 was another good year for women running for election
The Hill interviewed CAWP Director Debbie Walsh about the 2021 elections. "Women are a good investment for the parties, and now it’s on both sides of the aisle," said Walsh.
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