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

Those who serve the public trust must take special care to ensure
they make ethical and responsible decisions. Yet the realities of
bureaucracies, deadlines, budgets, and demands for quick results
make the payoffs for dealing formally with ethics seem unclear.
Since its original publication, The Responsible
Administrator has guided professionals and students alike as
they grapple with the challenges of making ethical, responsible
decisions in real world situations.

This new edition includes information on coping with new demands
for accountability, as well as new cases and examples, an
examination of current issues relevant to administrative ethics,
and supplementary materials for professors.

Cooper’s theoretical framework and practical applications
and techniques will help you consider all of the factors involved
in a decision, ensuring that you balance professional, personal,
and organizational values. Case studies and examples illustrate
what works and what does not. The Responsible Administrator
helps both experienced and novice public administrators and
students become effective decision makers, provides them with a
solid understanding of the role of ethics in public service and the
framework to incorporate ethical and values-based decision making
in day-to-day management.

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Preface to the Fifth Edition.

Acknowledgments.

The Author.

1 Introduction.

2 Understanding Ethical Decision Making.

Part One: Ethics for Individual Administrators.

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

4 Administrative Responsibility: The Key to Administrative
Ethics.

5 Conflicts of Responsibility: The Ethical Dilemma.

Part Two: Ethics in the Organization.

6 Maintaining Responsible Conduct in Public Organizations: Two
Approaches.

7 Integrating Ethics with Organizational Norms and
Structures.

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

Part Three: The Design Approach.

9 Applying the Design Approach to Public Administration
Ethics.

10 Conclusion: Responsible Administration.

References.

Index.

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Terry L. Cooper is The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in
Citizenship and Democratic Values (Social Ethics) at the University
of Southern California (USC). His research centers on citizen
participation and public ethics. He is one of the coprincipal
investigators in the USC Neighborhood Participation Project (NPP),
conducting research on the role of neighborhood organizations in
governance in the City of Los Angeles through the system of
neighborhood councils established in 1999. Also, he is the director
of the USC Civic Engagement Initiative, which is expanding the work
of the NPP beyond neighborhood councils and beyond Los
Angeles.

Cooper is the author of The Responsible Administrator: An
Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (4th ed., 1998)
and An Ethic of Citizenship for Public Administration
(1991). He is the coeditor of Exemplary Public Administrators:
Character and Leadership in Government (1992) and the editor of
Handbook of Administrative Ethics (2nd ed., 2001). His
articles have appeared in Public Administration Review,
Administration and Society, International Review of Administrative
Sciences, International Journal of Public Administration,
Administrative Theory and 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 and Praxis and currently serves on the editorial board
of The American Review of Public Administration. Cooper is
the editor of the Exemplar Profile series in the journal Public
Integrity.

Cooper has previously served as chair of the Section on Ethics of
the American Society for Public Administration. He has conducted
ethics training for many professional groups at different levels of
government around the United States and in several other countries.