Policy Analysis

These teaching cases provide students with a chance to discover or practice analytic tools that will help them sort through the kinds of messy, real-life decisions they are likely to face in public and nonprofit sectors. They are designed to improve learning on a host of topics including strategic alignment, generating alternatives, making trade-offs, decision-making under uncertainty, external actors, game theory, cost-benefit analysis, and political analysis.

  • Teaching Case - Career Caravan

    Career Caravan

    $3.95

    Publication Date: May 01, 2003

    In the summer of 2000, Bob Embry, the President of the Abell Foundation, asked two consultants to evaluate the performance Career Caravan, a job-to-work transportation program that his foundation was helping to fund. Career Caravan took...

  • Teaching Case - DART's Suburban Service

    DART's Suburban Service

    $3.95

    Publication Date: March 01, 2003

    In the spring of 2000, planners at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional public transit agency serving the Dallas metropolitan area, had to decide whether to cancel or modify a poorly performing bus route serving the suburban cities of...

  • Teaching Case - Arsenic in Drinking Water

    Arsenic in Drinking Water

    $3.95

    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)...

  • Teaching Case - The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal (Sequel)

    The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal (Sequel)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: November 01, 2000

    This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

  • Teaching Case - The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

    The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

    $3.95

    Publication Date: November 01, 2000

    This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...