| May Mon, 2020
NJ Gov Murphy Approval Ratings Soar in Latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll
“Crises such as the current pandemic require governors to assure citizens that they have the situation under control and console those who are suffering,” said Kristoffer Shields, assistant research professor and historian at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.
| May Thu, 2020
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll: Murphy ratings skyrocket amid pandemic
“Governor Murphy has taken a number of bold steps during the coronavirus response, a show of leadership that has thus far garnered widespread support, including from some groups that are typically not in his corner," said Shields.
| May Wed, 2020
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll Finds Murphy Ratings Soar Amid Pandemic
“Crises such as the current pandemic require governors to assure citizens that they have the situation under control and console those who are suffering,” said Kristoffer Shields, assistant research professor and historian at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.
| May Wed, 2020
Rutgers-Eagleton Poll: Murphy Ratings Soar Amid Pandemic
“Crises such as the current pandemic require governors to assure citizens that they have the situation under control and console those who are suffering,” said Kristoffer Shields, assistant research professor and historian at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.
| April Thu, 2020
States band together to take next step against coronavirus
“The effect of this pandemic is so much more widespread than any other calamity, or emergency, or crisis in anyone’s memory – and its path and duration are hard to predict,” says John Weingart, director of the Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “No one wants restrictions relaxed too soon, but what nobody knows is the definition of ‘too soon.’”
| April Wed, 2020
Power play: President Trump’s claim of ‘total’ authority turned into a temporary tempest
“You’ve got that mix of public health and the economy that makes the relationship more complicated,” John Weingart, director of Rutgers University’s Center on the American Governor, told the Deseret News in March.
| April Wed, 2020
Why this is Andrew Cuomo’s moment: Being New York’s governor is a big enough job
The New York Daily News published an op-ed written by Eagleton senior scholar, Saladin Ambar.
| April Wed, 2020
Who’s in charge? Governors and White House ‘feel their way’ through unprecedented crisis
"There should be a cooperative relationship. But in the circumstances of a crisis happening for the first time, everyone’s having to feel their way to some extent, even if you assume everybody’s operating with the best of intentions," said John Weingart.
| March Tue, 2020
Trump and Murphy are saying nice things about each other during coronavirus crisis. Here’s why.
John Weingart, director of the Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Center on the American Governor, said that unlike his predecessors, Trump wants recipients of federal largesse to respond with praise for him.