Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Banks expresses concern about election aftermath in Spectrum News article

"On a scale of one to 10, I’d say my worry is about a nine," says William Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs. "There are several plausible scenarios that could cause this election to go off the rails."

October 7, 2020

See related: U.S. Elections, United States

Thompson discusses impact of Trump's health with CNY Central, KPCC

"This is unusual in that it's part of a larger national story, it's not simply a story that a particular individual has contracted or a condition that a particular president has contracted. Its part of a pandemic," Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, tells CNY Central. If the president's condition worsens to the point where his presidential authority needs to be transferred to Vice President Mike Pence, it will have a major impact on the upcoming election, she says. "If he becomes seriously ill obviously it will have an impact." Thompson was also interviewed on KPCC's "AirTalk."

October 6, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, U.S. Elections, United States

Gadarian speaks to FiveThirtyEight, WAER about Trump's diagnosis

"Attitudes and behaviors around COVID-19 have become really concrete at this point — it will take a lot to move them in a significant, lasting way," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.

October 6, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, U.S. Elections, United States

Lovely quoted in Washington Times article on Trump, Biden and trade

"I would just say an important difference between Biden and Trump, when the smoke clears, is that Biden wants to work with the allies," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.

September 30, 2020

Reeher weighs in on rush to fill vacant SCOTUS seat in Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

Grant Reeher discusses the risk for Democrat's in an aggressive push to nominations to fill vacancies in high courts, although it could be perceived as a partisan scheme to stack the court just before an election cycle. Read more in "Top New York Democrats urge delay in filling high court vacancy."

September 30, 2020

See related: SCOTUS, U.S. Elections, United States

Reeher discusses the media's treatment of Trump in The Hill

"I do think it is clear, after almost four years of his presidency, that editorial choices...are very clearly very critical of the president [Donald Trump]," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

September 23, 2020

Lovely comments on US-China tech war in Axios article

The torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric by the Trump administration recently has been countered by much softer actions, as the administration attempts to "thread the needle" of looking tough heading into the election while having the Chinese continue to purchase U.S. goods, says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.

September 23, 2020

See related: China, U.S. Elections, United States

Gadarian speaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation about partisanship and people's behaviors

"We've been talking to the same [3,000] Americans since early March, every six weeks or so," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. What they found is that Americans were "using their partisanship as the top way to screen new information and decide what to do."

September 18, 2020

Keck comments on priority of the Supreme Court in 2020 election in Sinclair Broadcast Group article

"The Republican base has been more focused on that issue [Supreme Court] than the Democratic base has from Reagan forward, roughly," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "There’s some evidence that that’s shifting."

September 17, 2020