Terry L. Cooper 
The Responsible Administrator 
An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role

Praise for the Fifth Edition of The Responsible
Administrator

‘Cooper’s fifth edition is the definitive text for students and
practitioners who want to have a successful administrative career.
Moral reasoning, as Cooper so adeptly points out, is essential in
today’s rapidly changing and complex global
environment.’–Donald C. Menzel, president, American Society
for Public Administration, and professor emeritus, public
administration, Northern Illinois University

‘The Responsible Administrator is at once the most
sophisticated and the most practical book available on public
sector ethics. It is conceptually clear and jargon-free, which is
extraordinary among books on administrative ethics.’–H.
George Frederickson, Stone Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration, University of Kansas

‘Remarkably effective in linking the science of what should be
done with a prescriptive for how to actually do it, the fifth
edition of Cooper’s book keeps pace with the dynamic changes in the
field, both for those who study it and those who practice it. The
information presented in these pages can be found nowhere else, and
it is information we cannot ethically afford to
ignore.’–Carole L. Jurkiewicz, John W. Dupuy Endowed
Professor, and Woman’s Hospital Distinguished Professor of
Healthcare Management, Louisiana State University, E. J. Ourso
College of Business Administration, Public Administration
Institute

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Preface to the Sixth Edition vii

Acknowledgments xi

The Author xv

1 Introduction 1

2 Understanding Ethical Decision Making 13

Part One: Ethics for Individual Administrators 41

3 Public Administration in Modern and Postmodern Society: The Context of Administrative Ethics 43

4 Administrative Responsibility: The Key to Administrative Ethics 71

5 Conflicts of Responsibility: The Ethical Dilemma 93

Part Two: Ethics in the Organization 125

6 Maintaining Responsible Conduct in Public Organizations: Two Approaches 127

7 Integrating Ethics with Organizational Norms and Structures 161

8 Safeguarding Ethical Autonomy in Organizations: Dealing with Unethical Superiors and Organizations 197

Part Three: the Design Approach 241

9 Applying the Design Approach to Public Administration Ethics 243

10 Conclusion: Responsible Administration 255

References 271

Index 283

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Terry L. Cooper is the Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. He was also a Fulbright professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Cooper has served as the chair of the Section on Ethics of the American Society for Public Administration, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His articles have appeared in Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, and the American Review of Public Administration.