Mobilizing Knowledge for Democratic Governance: The Case Method of Teaching Revisited.

The article describes an instance of instructional challenge in a nontraditional political science classroom and the techniques employed to meet that challenge, focusing on the experience of the University at Albany in New York affiliated Intergovernmental Solutions Program (IGSP). The IGSP prototype courses, Designing and Implementing Programs in the Intergovernmental Zone and Perspectives on Building Communities: Citizens, Organizations, and Intergovernmental Systems, created an interactive, dynamic and motivating learning situation.