Choosing an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (Part A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

These cases describe the political challenge faced by Bush administration Attorney General Richard Thornburgh as he sought to identify a nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The case allows for discussion of the...

Shifting the Terms of Debate: Mayor Norm Rice and the Greater Seattle Growth Quagmire

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When Seattle Mayor Norm Rice decided to seek ways to push a limited pro-growth strategy in a city long leery of new development, he confronted an essential conflict in political life: how could elected officials discuss new ideas to which they...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Managing Student Aid in Sweden

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

New leadership appointed in 1977 to head Sweden's National Student Aid Board faces a near-desperate situation. So inefficient is the agency in processing student applications for college living expenses that some students, strapped for cash,...

Cleaner Air and Clearer Roads: A Plan for the Los Angeles Region

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A major regional planning agency for the Los Angeles area faces the challenge of developing a plan to change, drastically, the region's transportation patterns in hopes of helping it meet federal air quality standards. The Southern California...

Competing Demands: Henry Solano and the Colorado Department of Institutions (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When one of the last Colorado residential facilities for the developmentally disabled is faced with federal action aimed at closing it, the newly appointed head of the state's Department of Institutions finds himself quickly confronting a crisis...

Competing Demands: Henry Solano and the Colorado Department of Institutions

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When one of the last Colorado residential facilities for the developmentally disabled is faced with federal action aimed at closing it, the newly appointed head of the state's Department of Institutions finds himself quickly confronting a crisis...

Hungary: Forging New Channels of Communication

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The collapse of communism in Hungary, as in other Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union itself, has not led smoothly to a democratic government in its place. The transition from a government which is, in most ways, an extension...

This Far and No Further: The Rise and Fall of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This pair of cases, set in 1987 and 1988, examines the challenge faced by the top federal science officials to coordinate the efforts of a wide array of federal agencies to study the emerging problem of global environmental change ("global...

Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

The (Julia?) Child's Guide to "e"

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This is a short explanation of how capital investment analyses can be simplified using continuous discounting and the exponential function "e." Cookbook formulas for diverse cost and benefit time patterns are provided.