Jeffrey Segal

Jeffrey Segal, Department Chair

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Department of Political Science

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4392 (631) 632-7662 (office) (631) 632-4116 (fax)

Jeffrey(dot)Segal(at)stonybrook(dot)edu

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1983. 2011-2012 Guggenheim Award Winner; 2012 Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Research Interests: Judicial Process and Behavior; American Politics; Methodology.

• Course Offerings and Syllabi
  

  • Type of  Class	Course Number	Course Name
    Undergraduate	POL 105	Honors American Politics
    	POL 320	Constitutional Law
    	POL 325	Civil Liberties
    	POL 434	Supreme Court Decision Making
    Doctoral	POL 600	Research Project
    	POL 614	American Judiciary
    	POL 670	Behavioral Law and Economy

   
• Curriculum Vitae (in pdf format)
  
  
• Data
  

  POL 434. This links to data used in my Supreme Court Decision making class. Datasets include data on Supreme Court nominees since Earl Warren, abridged versions of the Spaeth databases, and some Solicitor General data.
  Presidential Ideology. This links to data used in Jeffrey Segal, Richard Timpone, and Robert Howard, "Buyer Beware? Presidential Influence Through Supreme Court Appointments." Political Research Quarterly. It also provides salience data not discussed in the article.
  Perceived Qualifications and Ideology of Supreme Court Nominees
  Pool Memos

• Gateways to Democracy
• Perceived Qualifications and Ideology of Supreme Court Nominees
• Judical Review
• Strategic Defiance