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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
Office: (213) 740-0371
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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)