Federal

The Defense Minister's Decision

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

An elected but corrupt populist President, who is completing his second term, has suggested that he will remain in office by whatever means necessary. Large segments of the public in the capital city take to the streets to demand that the...

Should the Constitution be Amended?

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

Senator Juan Santos must cast a decisive vote for or against amending the fledgling Constitution to allow the popular and successful incumbent president a second six year term. Aware of the public's and his constituents' strong support of an...

The White House Carves the Turkey

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a deputy director for environmental protection in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the US Army learns that a project on which he'd worked for 14 months was about to be scrapped by the White House, he compares his fate to that...

Confrontation in Utah

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When the new supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest in San Juan County, Utah receives a letter from the local county commission demanding that she direct the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to remove a significant number of elk from...

A Go-Getter in DOD

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a newly-appointed Department of Defense official takes her position, she finds that she must decide quickly how to deal with a "cowboy"-style employee who, although arguably getting impressive results, has been working outside established...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however, goes on to frame political questions which develop when...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003: Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded (A)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing legislation--on how the program was conceived and structured and how it...

Charting a Course in a Storm: US Postal Service and the Anthrax Crisis

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

On October 21, 2001, a postal worker from a mail sorting facility in Washington, DC, died of inhalation anthrax--a disease virtually unseen for a century. The next day, a second employee from the same facility died. Fear of anthrax had already...

Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the view of many, for his style of leadership. A combination...

David Ellwood's First Senior Staff Meeting

Publication Date: February 09, 2003

This case describes a typical challenge faced by a sub-cabinet official. New to office, David Ellwood is advised by his (highly competent and professional) staff that he should oppose--at his very first senior staff meeting after being confirmed...

Arsenic in Drinking Water

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In January 2001, on the last day of the term of President William Clinton, the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) had reduced the maximum permissible level of arsenic in drinking water from 50 to 10 parts per billion (ppb)...

Credible Warnings or False Alarms? What the US Knew on September 10, 2001

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Well before the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, the threat posed to Americans and the United States by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda (The Base) network of terrorists was well documented and closely monitored. Two US agencies--the...