Advocacy and Lobbying

From individual moral dilemmas to multiparty negotiations, the cases in this section explore the role of influence in decision- and policy-making as well as the means by which it is exerted. Through discussion-based, active learning, students consider the perspectives and challenges faced by advocates large and small as well as the political and organizational actors with which they engage.

  • Teaching Case - Saving the Tuolumne (Sequel)

    Saving the Tuolumne (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1986

    In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of their long-standing proposal to dam the Tuolumne River for power and water. At the same time,...

  • Teaching Case - Saving the Tuolumne

    Saving the Tuolumne

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1986

    In April 1983, the City and County of San Francisco and two irrigation districts in Merced and Stanislaus counties commissioned a feasibility study of their long-standing proposal to dam the Tuolumne River for power and water. At the same time,...

  • Classic Case - Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System (Sequel)

    Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...

  • Classic Case - Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System

    Future of Los Alamos City Electric Utility System

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    The county of Los Alamos operates a small electric utility. Its largest customer, a national laboratory, faces intense pressure to reduce its payments-in-lieu-of-taxes to the county while at the same time it needs electricity at low cost to...

  • Classic Case - Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office (Sequel)

    Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    In 1969, President Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton Blount, set out to reorganize the Post Office by turning it into a government corporation. Aware that the Congress and the postal unions liked the old system, were well served by it, and...

  • Classic Case - Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office

    Selling the Reorganization of the Post Office

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    In 1969, President Nixon's Postmaster General, Winton Blount, set out to reorganize the Post Office by turning it into a government corporation. Aware that the Congress and the postal unions liked the old system, were well served by it, and...

  • Classic Case - Prohibition: Supplement

    Prohibition: Supplement

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

  • Classic Case - Prohibition (B): Repeal

    Prohibition (B): Repeal

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

  • Classic Case - Prohibition (A): Enactment

    Prohibition (A): Enactment

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

  • Classic Case - Freezing the Arms Race: Public Opinion (Supplement)

    Freezing the Arms Race: Public Opinion (Supplement)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    This two-part case examines Randall Forsberg's role in the evolution of the grassroots nuclear freeze movement. The first part ("Genesis of a Mass Movement") offers background on post-WWII arms issues and on the growth of the peace movement...

  • Classic Case - Freezing the Arms Race: The Campaign in Washington

    Freezing the Arms Race: The Campaign in Washington

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    This two-part case examines Randall Forsberg's role in the evolution of the grassroots nuclear freeze movement. The first part ("Genesis of a Mass Movement") offers background on post-WWII arms issues and on the growth of the peace movement...