Professor
Director, Civic Engagement Initiative
School of Policy, Planning, and Development
213-740-0371
tlcooper@usc.edu
Professor Cooper is the Director of the Civic Engagement Initiative in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, where the central focus at present is the research on the home owner association movement in China during the last 3 years.
Professor Cooper also 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.
Education:
Ph.D., (Social Ethics), University of Souther California, 1973
M.Th., School of Theology at Claremont, California, 1964
B.A., (History), University of California at Los Angeles, 1960
Selected Publications:
Cooper, Terry, “Outcomes Achieved Through Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management,” with Thomas A. Bryer, and Jack W. Meek, in Rosemary O’Leary and Lisa Bingham, (eds), Big Ideas in Collaborative Public Management. Armonk, NY.: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
Cooper, Terry, The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 5th edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Cooper, Terry, “Connecting Neighborhood Councils and City Agencies—Trust Building Through the Learning and Design Forum Process,” with Pradeep C. Kathi, Journal of Public Affairs Education, 13, 2008, pp. 617-630.
Cooper, Terry, “Challenges in Enhancing Responsiveness in Neighborhood Governance,” with Thomas Bryer, Public Performance & Management Review, 31, 2007, no. 2, pp. 191-214.
Cooper, Terry, “William Robertson: Exemplar of Politics and Public Management Rightly Understood,” with Thomas Bryer. Public Administration Review, 67, 2007, pp. 816-823.
Cooper, Terry, “The Role of the University as a Mediating Institution in a Neighborhood Council-City Agency Collaboration., with Pradeep Chandra Kathi and Jack W. Meek, Journal of Public Affairs Education, 13, 2007, pp. 365-382.
Cooper, Terry, "Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management,” with Thomas A. Bryer and Jack W. Meek, Public Administration Review, 66, 2006, special issue, 76-8.
Cooper, Terry L., "Big Questions in Administrative Ethics: A Need for Focused, Collaborative Effort"; Public Administration Review, 64, no. 4, pp. 395-407; 2004.
Myrtle, Robert C. with Melissa Gaeke and Terry Cooper, "Trust, Deliberation and Changing Administrative Culture"; in Engaging the Global Community. Los Angeles: Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, pp. 30-34; 2003.
Cooper, Terry L. with Diane Yoder, "Public Management Ethics in a Transnational World"; Public Integrity,IV(4):333-352; 2002.
Cooper, Terry L. with Juliet Musso and Alicia Kitsuse, "Faith Organizations and Neighborhood Councils in Los Angeles"; Public Administration and Development, 22:83-94; 2002.
Cooper, Terry L., The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 4th edition. (Published in Chinese); Beijing: Renmin University Press; 2001.
AWARDS AND HONORS
American Society for Public Administration 2006 Presidential Citation of Merit
Appointed to Maria B. Crutcher Professorship in Citizenship and Democratic Values, November, 1997
Fulbright Lecturing and Research Grant (Chinese University of Hong Kong), 1988-89
Phi Kappa Phi Book Award - Honorable Mention, 1983
Teaching Excellence Award (School of Public Administration), 1980