This season, let us all remember the lullaby for the lost The Hill published an op-ed written by Eagleton Director John J. Farmer, Jr. "We’ve become a culture that looks away from intractable realities, that talks past the thousands of murdered kids, that just doesn’t care to see the million+ victims of a pandemic response..." 2022 was another bad year for New Jersey women in politics NJ.com published an op-ed written by CAWP Associate Director Jean Sinzdak. Biden’s release of JFK files calls to mind Truman’s warning NJ Spotlight News published an op-ed written by Eagleton Professor Saladin Ambar. "The Biden administration’s decision to release 13,173 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy this past Thursday may not resolve the decades-long debate over what actually happened that fateful November day in Dallas 59 years ago. But it may help researchers better come to grips with uncomfortable truths about America’s foreign policy and intelligence agencies during the Cold War." What to expect from Arizona’s new governor Katie Hobbs Hobbs’ narrow win over Republican Kari Lake in November’s election means she has less of a mandate than if she had a wider margin of victory, but her experience as a former state lawmaker could prove beneficial, said Kristoffer Shields, an assistant research professor at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics and historian at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor. “The most effective approach is to start by finding common ground,” Shields said. “There are going to be times when it’s difficult, but that doesn’t mean that it’s ungovernable. There certainly are ways that she’ll be able to find to work with Republicans in the legislature.” - Deseret News
NJ Leads in Public-Opinion Polls. From Pork Roll to Property Taxes, Here’s What We Care About When the public-opinion researchers at the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University first began polling New Jersey residents on state issues more than 50 years ago, property taxes and the economy were the issues that concerned them the most. Some things never change. With 2023 underway, property taxes and the economy continue to be the most pressing issues facing New Jersey. “In the five decades we have been polling New Jersey, taxes perennially have the number one spot when it comes to what residents say is the top problem,” says Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center. - New Jersey Monthly
The paradox at the heart of the most diverse Congress ever “Demographic representation does not always equate representation on particular policy issues because all Latinos, all women, all LGBTQ folks do not agree on a policy agenda,” says Kelly Dittmar, a political scientist at Rutgers and the scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics. “We don’t just elect women, and XYZ policy passes.” - Vox
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