University of Southern California

Terry L. Cooper

Professor
The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 302
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Email: tlcooper@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-0371
Fax: (213) 740-5379
Ph.D. in Social Ethics
University of Southern California

Expertise
Administrative ethics, administrative theory, citizen participation, neighborhood organizations, role of citizens

Biographical Sketch
Terry L. Cooper, Ph.D., focuses his research on citizen participation and ethics in government. Currently, Professor Cooper is one of the co-principal investigators in the USC Neighborhood Participation Project. There, he conducts research on the role of neighborhood organizations in governance in the City of Los Angeles through the newly established system of neighborhood councils. He also provides leadership in the creation of a new Center for Civic Engagement at USC. During 1993-94, Professor Cooper was a member of a national panel of the National Academy of Public Administration where he developed a decision-making process to encourage intergenerational equity in the management of hazardous wastes by the U.S. Department of Energy. He spent the 1988-89 academic year on a Fulbright Lecturing/Research Grant at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. There, his research emphasized the conflicting loyalties likely to be experienced by middle- and upper-level public administrators during Hong Kong's transition from the United Kingdom of China. Subsequently he coordinated research on administrative ethics in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Professor Cooper has conducted ethics training for numerous public agencies. He is author of The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (4th ed., Jossey-Boss, 1998) and An Ethic of Citizenship for Public Administration (Prentice Hall, 1991). He is the co-editor of Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government (Jossey-Bass, 1992) and the editor of Handbook of Administrative Ethics (2nd ed., Marcel Dekker, 2001). His articles have appeared in Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, International Review of Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Public Budgeting and Finance, and The Bureaucrat. He is a past member of the editorial boards of Public Administration Review and Administrative Theory & Praxis, and currently serves on the editorial board of The American Review of Public Administration. Professor Cooper is the editor of the Exemplars Profiles series in the journal Public Integrity.

Publications
Cooper, T.L., with P.C. Kathi and J.W. Meek, "Role of the University as a Mediating Institution in Neighborhood Council-City Agency Collaboration"; Journal of Public Affairs Education; Forthcoming

Cooper, T.L. with A. Bryer and J.W. Meek, "Outcomes Achieved through Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management"; Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management; R. O'Leary and L. Bingham (Eds); Forthcoming

Cooper, T.L., "William Robertson: Exemplar of Politics and Public Management Rightly Understood," with Thomas Bryer; Public Administration Review, 67; 2007

Cooper, T.L., The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 5th edition; San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 2006

Cooper, T.L., with T.A. Bryer and J.W. Meek, "Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management"; Public Administration Review, 66, Special Issue on Collaborative Public Management, 76-88; 2006

Cooper, T.L., "Big Questions in Administrative Ethics: A Need for Focused, Collaborative Effort"; Public Administration Review, 64, no. 4, pp. 395-407; 2004

Myrtle, R.C., with M. Gaeke and T.L. Cooper, "Trust, Deliberation and Changing Administrative Culture"; Engaging the Global Community. Los Angeles: Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, pp. 30-34; 2003

Cooper, T.L. with D. Yoder, "Public Management Ethics in a Transnational World"; Public Integrity,IV(4):333-352; 2002

Cooper, T.L. with J. Musso and A. Kitsuse, "Faith Organizations and Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles"; Public Administration and Development, 22:83-94; 2002

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