Ethics

How should political actors behave? What is good representation? When is it appropriate to make a compromise? Is releasing confidential information ever justified? How do you change deeply entrenched social norms? Should you? These are just some of the questions raised by the teaching cases in this section, which ask students to consider the implications and ramifications of real-world ethical scenarios, with sources of conflict ranging from personal to structural dilemmas.

  • Teaching Case - An Openly Gay Man in Politics: The Story of Michael Duffy

    An Openly Gay Man in Politics: The Story of Michael Duffy

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    This case recounts the political career of a gay Republican who, first, decides to run against an incumbent state legislator who has traditionally been a liberal advocate of gay rights, and, second, decides to accept a Republican governor's...

  • Teaching Case - Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

    Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

  • Teaching Case - A Policewoman's (Non) Use of Deadly Force

    A Policewoman's (Non) Use of Deadly Force

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    The new and growing presence of women in the police department of Houston, Texas does more than create a need for a new locker room. Women appear to introduce a different sense of policing tactics, particularly as regards the police response to...

  • Teaching Case - An Ordeal in Iran (Sequel)

    An Ordeal in Iran (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

  • Teaching Case - An Ordeal in Iran

    An Ordeal in Iran

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1991

    An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...