New Jersey Political Science Association Conference
New Jersey Political Science Association Conference
March 3, 2023
Sweeney Center Advisory Board Chair Steve Sweeney was the keynote speaker and the Sweeney Center’s Multi-Year Budget Workgroup were featured as the opening panel for the annual convention of the New Jersey Political Science Association held at Rowan on March 3, 2023.
Multi-Year Budget Workgroup panelists included Sweeney Center Director Mark Magyar; former state Treasurer David Rousseau, Vice President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey; Ralph Albert Thomas, CEO and Executive Director of the NJ Society of CPAs; and Marc Pfeiffer, Assistant Director of Rutgers University's Bloustein Local Government Research Center and former Deputy Director of the NJ Division of Local Government Services.
Rowan Political Science Professor Danielle Gougon serves as president of the NJ Political Science Association.
Finding the Center: Achieving Bipartisan Consensus on Fiscal Policy
Moderator: Mark Magyar, Director, The Sweeney Center for Public Policy, Panel; Ralph Albert Thomas, CEO and Executive Director of the New Jersey Society of CPAs, David Rousseau, Former NJ State Treasurer, Marc Pfeiffer, Senior Policy Fellow and Assistant Director, Bloustein Local Government Research Center
Challenges in Polling
Moderator: Danielle Gougon, Ph.D., Faculty, Department of Political Science and Economics, Rowan University Panel; Patrick Murray, Director, Monmouth University Polling Institute, Debbie Borie-Holz, Associate Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Senior Survey Scholar, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, Andrew Gooch, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Economics, Rowan University, Alyssa Maurice, Research Associate, William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy, Stockton University
Steve Sweeney on Creating Public Policy
Rowan Provost Tony Lowman, Former Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney, Valerie Ruscansky, Graduate Student, Masters of Public Policy Program, Rowan University
