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 - Getting Squeezed

    Getting Squeezed

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    Publication Date: September 01, 1998

    The executive assistant to the Army Chief of Staff prepares the nomination forms for all Army officers eligible for promotion, which are then submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) for approval and later confirmation by the...

  • Teaching Case - A Close Election

    A Close Election

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    Publication Date: September 01, 1998

    When a Republican state representative in the Midwest decides not to seek re-election, he is approached by a politically active, successful farmer about running for the seat. He thinks the farmer would represent the moderate wing of the party...

  • Teaching Case - ABC and Food Lion: A Case Study

    ABC and Food Lion: A Case Study

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The rise of highly-rated nonfiction television programs has sparked concern about the techniques which television producers use to gather images and information. This press ethics case focuses on a particularly controversial technique: the...

  • Teaching Case - Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

  • Teaching Case - James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

    James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

  • Teaching Case - Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

    Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1995

    The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe ushered in a new era of political freedom. At the same time, it opened an old Pandora's box of ethnic tensions and hatreds, suppressed in the ostensibly universalist Marxist regimes. Among the most...

  • Teaching Case - The Palestinian Flag Controversy at Lakeland High School

    The Palestinian Flag Controversy at Lakeland High School

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1994

    A celebration of a suburban high school's ethnic diversity unexpectedly leads to crisis when a Palestinian student demands that a display of flags include the banner of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The community threatens to break down...