Politics

Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

Publication Date: March 09, 1998

This case describes the first four years of John Swift's tenure as Britain's Rail Regulator and the issues he faced in the fall of 1997. The post of Rail Regulator had been created by the Railway Act of 1993, as part of a plan to break up and...

Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

This case focuses on the efforts by Stephen Littlechild, the United Kingdom's electricity regulator in the mid-1990s, to set performance-based rates for the country's 13 electricity distribution companies. The case allows for a class discussion...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...

1976 Footwear Import Decision

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case about decision-making at the Presidential level focuses on a question before the Ford Administration in early 1976: whether to provide some sort of relief for the beleaguered U.S. footwear (shoe) industry, then buffeted by increasingly...

Shifting the Labor Relations Paradigm: A Union-Management Partnership in Ohio State Government (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public sector unions are the fastest-growing sector of organized labor in the US, and are key players to be considered by a wide variety of elected and appointed public officials. This case, in contrast to most in both public management and...

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

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,...

Shifting the Labor Relations Paradigm: A Union-Management Partnership in Ohio State Government

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public sector unions are the fastest-growing sector of organized labor in the US, and are key players to be considered by a wide variety of elected and appointed public officials. This case, in contrast to most in both public management and...

Emily's List and Campaign Finance Reform

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

A federal legislative proposal, supported by the "good government" group Common Cause, would limit contributions of political action committees to election campaigns. The proposal runs into surprising opposition from liberal members of the House...

CIA and the Fall of the Soviet Empire: The Politics of "Getting it Right"

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The abrupt disintegration in 1991 of the Soviet Union leads to accusations that the United States intelligence apparatus--the Central Intelligence Agency, in particular--had failed in its primary mission: to correctly assess the political,...

The Gulf Crisis: Building a Coalition for War

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The Gulf War--the US led effort to oust Iraq's armed forces from neighboring, oil-rich Kuwait--may be best remembered for the sheer effectiveness of the tactics and power which achieved the US military objectives in short order. But between the...

MCS2: Software for the Soldier (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

Accurate information about troop positions and other conditions are crucial for battlefield commanders. But when the US Army moves to develop a software program which will make such information more easily and widely available, complications...

MCS2: Software for the Soldier

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

Accurate information about troop positions and other conditions are crucial for battlefield commanders. But when the US Army moves to develop a software program which will make such information more easily and widely available, complications...