| March Sun, 2019
While Gov. Jay Inslee Is Out Running for President, Who’s Running the State?
“‘It’s more of a challenge for a governor than for a congressman or senator, because for a congressman or a senator there’s some expectation they’re going to spend time out of state, in Washington,’ said Kristoffer Shields, a historian at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Center on the American Governor. ‘For the governor, there’s a little bit of an expectation that he or she is going to be in the state.’”
| March Fri, 2019
Record-breaking wins by female candidates in 2018 inspiring more to run
“Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Kelly Dittmar and the Director of Progressive Programming for Sirius XM, Zerlina Maxwell join Chris Jansing to discuss the factors at play behind the surge of women candidates in 2019 elections.”
| February Tue, 2019
Georgia Legislature has more female lawmakers, more bills about women
“The 2018 election saw a record number of women running up and down the ballot. That led to women making up 30.5 percent of Georgia’s Legislature, up from 25 percent in 2017 and 20 percent 10 years ago, according to an analysis by Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics.”
| February Tue, 2019
Women candidates for 2020 are putting motherhood front and center
“Warren is far from the first candidate to highlight the importance of affordable child care. Her plan has also already faced intense criticism in some quarters, but it's rare - and notable - to see a candidate focus on child care as a signature issue in the first few weeks of a campaign, said Kelly Dittmar, an assistant professor of political science and scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.”