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Eagleton News Archives
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Commentary on President Bush's State of the Union address, written by Gerald Pomper, Board of Governors Professor of Political Science
(Emeritus), published in The Star-Ledger, January 30, 2006.
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| Clean Election Campaign in New Jersey |
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Press Release 11/21/05
Voters this fall knew little about an attempt by the New Jersey state legislature to introduce public financing of Assembly races, or to reduce the influence of large donors over the legislative process, and to increase trust in state government.
Draft Report to the New Jersey Citizens’ Clean Election Commission 11/21/05
Submitted by Dr. Peter Woolley, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Dr. Tim Vercellotti, Rutgers University
About the Clean Election Study Group
Academics from various institutions of higher education whose work includes a focus on New Jersey politics are collaborating to provide information to the Clean Elections Commission, undertaken independently from the Commission, for the Commission’s use in evaluating the Pilot Project conducted in the fall of 2005.
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Another Government Success Story: Citizen Volunteers on New Jersey State Boards and Commissions
A new study by Eagleton Institute of Politics associate director John Weingart examines the role of citizens in state boards and commissions.
Read the report here.
Sources of Variation in Published Election Polling: A Primer
This primer, prepared by Cliff Zukin, Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University,
addresses the surveys conducted by and for the media about candidates' relative
positions during the campaign season. It focuses on a number of factors that
can affect polling results, such as sampling error, respondent selection, and
the timing of the polls, among others.
Read report
here
Press Release: Eagleton Offers NJ Voter Information on 2004
Congressional Races
Updated information on New Jersey candidates in the 2004 elections is available
at www.njvoterinfo.org.
Read the full
press release here
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Tough Choice: A Look at New Jersey’s Undecided Voters
Jeffrey Levine, director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling and Patrick Murray,
acting director, Star-Ledger Eagleton-Rutgers Poll convened a focus
group of undecided voters in New Jersey to help answer questions about why they
are still undecided.
Read a summary of that
discussion here
Youth
Vote in 2004
The media have been reporting some data that is fairly misleading. Susan Sherr,
Director of Eagleton's Civic Education and Political Participation Program, has
summarized some statistics from the analysis of exit poll data done by the Center
for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
Information available
here
Making
Democracy Work: Issues in Voter Participation
Ingrid Reed,
Eagleton's New Jersey Project director, has written a paper
commissioned by the Center for Government Services, Rutgers,
that was first presented at a roundtable discussion on the
subject in March 2004.
Paper
available here (.pdf format).
The
Times of Trenton editorial on helping voters stay informed
On October 20, 2003 editorial page, The Times of Trenton praised
efforts to keep voters informed, mentioning Eagleton's www.njvoterinfo.org web
site as an example. Read
the editorial here.
Improving
Turnout
Ingrid
Reed, director of Ealgeton's New Jersey project, wrote an opinion piece
on improving voter turnout that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer southern
edition on Sunday, October 19, 2003. Read
the article here.
The
Legislature: Everybody's Whipping Boy (or Girl)
Alan
Rosenthal, professor of public policy at the Eagleton Institute, gave
a speech on October 1, 2003 at the New Jersey State House. The event
was sponsored by Friends of the State House. Read
his remarks here.
Citizenship:
A Challenge for All Generations
Professors Alan Rosenthal and Cliff Zukin collaborated with Karl Kurtz of the
National Conference of State Legislatures to produce this report in September
2003. It describes the lack of civic understanding and participation among
today's youth. The report finds that "older generations have failed to teach
the ideals
of
citizenship to the next generation."
Read
the report here.
Star-Ledger Op-Ed
on Youth Civic Engagement
CEPP director Susan Sherr's opinion piece printed in the Star-Ledger on
September 25, 2003. Read
the editorial here.
Chief
Justice Deborah Poritz' Remarks at Eagleton Year-End Ceremonies
New
Jersey Chief Justice Deborah Poritz was the featured speaker at the 2003 year-end
cermonies honoring the Eagleton Fellows and Raimondo Fellows. Read
her comments here.
New
Guide Available for Measuring Civic and Political Engagement
Cliff
Zukin, Professor of Public Policy and Director of SLERP, and Krista Jenkins
of Eagleton's Center for Public Interest Polling, are part of a team
of researchers who have just produced "A Guide to the Index
of Civic and Political Engagement." more
here...
Ruth B. Mandel,
Eagleton Institute director, Days of Remembrance Remarks Entered
into Congressional Record
On June 12, 2003, Representative Tom Lantos (CA) acknowledged the extraordinary
work of Ruth B. Mandel as Vice Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Council (USHMC) since 1993. At that time, he entered her remarks on the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising spoken at the Days of Remembrance ceremony.
You can read his
comments and Ruth's comments here.
The Eagleton Poll Archive (hosted by the Scholarly Communications Center),
with over 30 years of New Jersey polls in a searchable database, is currently
featured as a new and noteworthy web site on the Rutgers home page (www.rutgers.edu).
You can visit
the archive here.
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