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Terry L. Cooper

Expert on civic engagement, including neighborhood councils and the ethics of public officials

Holder of the Maria B. Crutcher Professorship in Citizenship and Democratic Values
Director, Civic Engagement Initiative, USC Price School of Public Policy
Professor of Public Administration

Contact at: (213) 740-0371 (office), (323) 257-3469 (home) or tlcooper@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • ethical standards for, and ethical conduct by, public officials
  • ethics for law enforcement officers
  • ethics for police administrators
  • governmental ethics reform
  • public ethics training and education
  • issues of citizenship obligation and public ethics
  • neighborhood participation in government, particularly the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system
  • democratic values
  • social ethics
Additional Information:
  • Principal investigator, USC Neighborhood Participation Project
  • Affiliate, Southern California Studies Center
  • Author of An Ethic of Citizenship for Public Administration (1991) and The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 4th ed. (1998)
  • Editor of Handbook of Administrative Ethics, 1st and 2nd eds. (1994, 2000)
  • Co-editor of Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government (1992)

More:
For more information go to:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/faculty/detail.php?id=6