Pandemic Flu and the Potential for U.S. Economic Recession: A State-by-State Analysis

Considers how a severe health pandemic outbreak could impact the United States economy and delineates the potential financial loss each state could face

Fixing Food Safety: Protecting America's Food Supply From Farm-to-Fork

Provides an overview of the major concerns regarding U.S. food safety, including an ineffective regulatory system, and of food-borne disease threats. Includes lists of recent outbreaks, major causes of food-borne illnesses, and recommended solutions

F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2006

Examines national and state obesity rates and government policies. Offers recommendations to check the obesity crisis, including a twenty-step action plan for addressing the healthcare burdens and financial costs associated with the epidemic

Shortchanging America's Health 2008: A State-by-State Look at How Federal Public Health Dollars Are Spent

Examines public health indicators in each state, in combination with federal and state funding for programs to promote health. Includes state rankings by funding per capita, percentage of population who are uninsured, disease rates, and other indicators

All Relationships Dissipate Except This: The Attitude-Behavior Link on the Roberts Court

This Article identifies several reasons that may explain the observed relationship between the ideology of Supreme Court justices and their voting behavior once on the Supreme Court. Segal measures the ideology of justices using newspaper editorial in prominent papers as they appear between the President’s nomination and the justice’s confirmation by the Senate, while tracking the voting behavior of justices as reported by Segal and Cover. The Article concludes, contrary to belief based on psychology and other sciences, that this relationship between ideology and behavior will continue because of the importance of the Supreme Court in national affairs, and greater participation of interest groups in the political process, among others

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2008

Examines ten indicators to assess progress in state readiness to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. Evaluates the federal government's and hospitals' preparedness. Makes suggestions for funding, restructuring, and other reforms

F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011

Outlines 2008-10 national and state obesity rates, health indicators, and policies to address the epidemic; regional, economic, and social barriers to healthy choices; impact of the 2010 healthcare reform and Let's Move initiative; and recommendations

Jeffrey Segal Intarview

Transcript of an oral history interview with Jeffrey Segal by John Ernst on his experiences during the Vietnam War on June 23, 1997

Trumping the First Amendment?

The primary goal of this Essay is to assess whether the relationship between the ideology of Supreme Court Justices and their support for the First Amendment guarantees of speech, press, assembly, and association has declined, such that left-of-center Justices no longer consistently support those guarantees, and right-of-center Justices no longer consistently support their regulation. Utilizing data drawn from the 1953 through 2004 terms of the Court, we show that, in disputes in which only First Amendment claims are at issue, the more liberal the Justice, the higher the likelihood that he or she will vote in favor of litigants alleging an abridgment of their rights. That relationship, however, fails to emerge in disputes in which other values, such as privacy and equality, are also prominently at stake. In these cases, liberal Justices are no more likely than their conservative counterparts to support the First Amendment; indeed, if anything, a reversal of sorts occurs, with conservatives more likely, and liberals less likely, to vote in favor of the speech, press, assembly, or association claim. Taken collectively, these results indicate that commitment to First Amendment values is no longer a lodestar of liberalism. We consider the implications of these findings in light of long-held assumptions of (quantitative) political science work on the Court