Additional Candidate Long-Term Decisions

Globe Long-term decisions occur when reflecting on potential events decades or more in the future causes decision makers to consider and perhaps choose near-term actions different than those they would otherwise pursue

GLOBAL

  • Forming League of Nations
  • Forming the United Nations Read More
  • Bretton Woods system
  • Creating international development institutions: World Bank, IMF
  • Green Revolution
  • China’s land reform (1970s)
  • Mauritius economic liberalization

UNITED STATES

  • Transcontinental Railroad Read More
  • Land Grant (College) Acts of the Lincoln Administration (1860s)
  • The Northwest Ordinance of 1789
  • GI Bill (1940s)
  • Creation of the Federal Reserve system (1910s)
  • Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  • Building the Panama Canal (1900s)
  • Post-Lincoln Reconstruction of the South (an unsuccessful long-term policy)
  • Alexander Hamilton's assumption of the state's revolutionary war debts by the Federal government (1790s)
  • 13th/14th/15th amendments
  • Homestead Act
  • Social Security
  • Medicare
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Earned Income Tax Credit
  • Graduated deterrence strategy
  • William Mullholland creating water distribution system for Los Angeles Read More

EUROPE

  • Bismarck’s welfare system
  • Disraeli expanding the franchise?
  • France’s decision to keep the sugar island of Guadeloupe during the peace settlement of the Seven Years’ War Read More
  • Marshall Plan
  • Formation of NATO
  • Individual European states in successive increments: Iron-Steel Community/European Community/European Union/euro area

Examples of Long-Term Decisions

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