Page 307. 15 Public-Service Ethics in a Transnational World Diane E. Yoder and Terry L Cooper Cor... more Page 307. 15 Public-Service Ethics in a Transnational World Diane E. Yoder and Terry L Cooper Corruption and bribery permeate state boundaries and they are temptations to public administrators and managers in every country. ...
Page 31. The Emergence of Administrative Ethics as a Field of Study in the United States Terry L.... more Page 31. The Emergence of Administrative Ethics as a Field of Study in the United States Terry L. Cooper University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California One might reasonably argue that administrative ethics has been ...
Recently international organizations have established international standards for public ethical ... more Recently international organizations have established international standards for public ethical conduct to be implemented in several countries for more consistent public management ethics. The authors examine regional and international efforts to establish ethics frameworks , reasons for the emerging ethical standards, and emerging global values. Finally, they offer observations about the emerging standards, the social construction process guiding this phenomenon in the absence of shared foundational beliefs, and future prospects.
... As the issue was debated in class, Gary was shocked at the ease and openness with which many ... more ... As the issue was debated in class, Gary was shocked at the ease and openness with which many individuals announced their disbelief Page 3. TERRY COOPER 205 in God. ... Page 5. TERRY COOPER 207 and new liberation. ...
Resident Medical Officer and Matron. (1) Should the matron of a hospital have her meals with the ... more Resident Medical Officer and Matron. (1) Should the matron of a hospital have her meals with the nurses, resident medical officers, or alone in her own apartments? (2) Under what conditions should the matron and resident medical
... Examples are Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Lit-tle, Brown, 1967); Louis C. Gawth... more ... Examples are Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Lit-tle, Brown, 1967); Louis C. Gawthrop, Bureaucratic Behavior in the Executive Branch (New York: Free Press, 1969); and Robert T. Golembiewski, "Organization Development in Public Agencies," Public ...
... edited by Ali Farazmand Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by KuotsaiT... more ... edited by Ali Farazmand Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by KuotsaiTom Liou Handbook of ... Robert Munzenrider, and Sherrie Bartell Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded, Ferrel Heady Principles ...
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1992
These two books represent a striking departure from the cynicism of the last two decades about th... more These two books represent a striking departure from the cynicism of the last two decades about the possibility of government doing anything to ameliorate the plight of the urban poor. After years of droning criticism of the war on poverty of the 1960s and repeated assertions from our highest national leadership that government is part of the problem, not the solution, these volumes taken together provide a welcome argument for optimism. It is an optimism tempered by experience and chastened by historical and social research, to be sure, but optimism nevertheless. The Promised Land provides the historical backdrop for reconsidering the possibilities of federal action to alleviate urban poverty and the effects of America's tragic flaw-racism. It is a recounting of how we got to where we are in our major urban centers. Lemann traces with sensitivity and vivid imagery the flow of five million black people from the rural South to the cities of the North and West between 1940 and 1970. He typifies the experience of black Americans caught up in "one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements of people in history" (p. 6) through the life of one woman, Ruby Lee Hopkins, who moved from a cotton plantation in Mississippi to Clarksdale, a nearby town, then to Chicago, and finally back to her roots in Clarksdale. Clarksdale is used to represent all those other southern towns from which black people departed in the 1940s and 50s in search of the promised land; Chicago stands for all those northern and western cities in which most of them failed to find it. Lemann not only describes the migration from farm to town to city, he offers an explanation for its occurrence. His thesis is a simple one that might be characterized as technological determinism. Beginning with the invention of cottonpicking machines and continuing through the use of chemical weedkillers, the mechanization of cotton farming displaced black farm laborers and broke up the sharecropping system that had existed since the abolition of slavery. Having lost their
Though citizen trust in government is very important for the legitimacy of the government, there ... more Though citizen trust in government is very important for the legitimacy of the government, there is evidence to show that citizen trust in government is decreasing, not only in the United States of America but also all over the world. Scholars argue that citizen participation and collaborative processes involving citizen stakeholders in government decision-making could lead to increasing citizen trust in government. However, the argument that citizen participation in governance and citizen-government collaboration can lead to increased trust in governance from a conceptual or macro level perspective is difficult to visualize or establish empirically. We suggest that this collaboration and participation has to be at the experiential micro or local government level rather than at the conceptual macro level. Citizen participation in general has to translate into collaborative relationships between specific micro-level citizen organizations and city or local public agencies. We also propose that citizen participation mechanisms like collaborations and cooperative arrangements as well as the processes of collaboration are critical to establish the participation-trust causal relationship. We then present our Learning and Design Forum model as a process that facilitates a sustainable agreement between neighborhood councils and city agencies model for developing mutual trust and collaboration. Public trust of citizens in their government is important for any country. At the macro or national level, public trust provides legitimacy to government decisions (Feldheim and Wang, 2003). Citizen trust is a condition for a healthy democracy (Berresford, 2000a). Citizen trust in government is necessary for "political leaders to make binding decisions and commit resources to attain societal goals" (Chanley, Rudolph and Rahn, 2000, 240). Public disinterest in govern
This article investigates the behavioral consequences of homeowners’ participation in neighborhoo... more This article investigates the behavioral consequences of homeowners’ participation in neighborhood affairs in Beijing, China. The research is based on semistructured interviews with homeowner leaders, property managers, and government officials. Participation fosters ethical citizenship by helping homeowners to acquire democratic skills, increase their awareness of property and political rights, and cultivate a sense of community. The development of ethical citizenship motivates homeowners to redefine legal citizenship. Homeowners have begun to take their rights seriously and actively participate in grassroots elections. The interaction between ethical and legal citizenship may carry important implications for future political development in China.
The citizen participation program of the Los Angeles County Health Systems Agency represents one ... more The citizen participation program of the Los Angeles County Health Systems Agency represents one of the most ambitious efforts at implementing the public involvement provisions of PL 93-641. The first year of this program is discussed and analyzed through a participation costs theoretical framework. Specific costs which are inherent in the organizational design and introduced by the implementation procedures adopted are identified and discussed. Levels of participation after one year of operation are examined and found consistent with the high cost of participation in this program.
We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candida... more We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candidates. We assume that some of the candidates are benevolent and that all voters prefer a benevolent president, i.e. a president who serves the public interest. Yet, political selection may fail in our model because voters cannot easily tell benevolent from egoistic candidates by observing their pre-election behavior. Egoistic types may strategically imitate benevolent types in the pre-election stage to extract rents once in office. We show that strategic imitation is less likely if the political system is likely to produce good governance. That is, if benevolent candidates are common, if the president has little discretionary power, and if the public sector is effective. We analyze the role of institutions like investigative media and re-election and show that they can improve or further hamper political selection, depending on the parameters of the political game.
Page 307. 15 Public-Service Ethics in a Transnational World Diane E. Yoder and Terry L Cooper Cor... more Page 307. 15 Public-Service Ethics in a Transnational World Diane E. Yoder and Terry L Cooper Corruption and bribery permeate state boundaries and they are temptations to public administrators and managers in every country. ...
Page 31. The Emergence of Administrative Ethics as a Field of Study in the United States Terry L.... more Page 31. The Emergence of Administrative Ethics as a Field of Study in the United States Terry L. Cooper University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California One might reasonably argue that administrative ethics has been ...
Recently international organizations have established international standards for public ethical ... more Recently international organizations have established international standards for public ethical conduct to be implemented in several countries for more consistent public management ethics. The authors examine regional and international efforts to establish ethics frameworks , reasons for the emerging ethical standards, and emerging global values. Finally, they offer observations about the emerging standards, the social construction process guiding this phenomenon in the absence of shared foundational beliefs, and future prospects.
... As the issue was debated in class, Gary was shocked at the ease and openness with which many ... more ... As the issue was debated in class, Gary was shocked at the ease and openness with which many individuals announced their disbelief Page 3. TERRY COOPER 205 in God. ... Page 5. TERRY COOPER 207 and new liberation. ...
Resident Medical Officer and Matron. (1) Should the matron of a hospital have her meals with the ... more Resident Medical Officer and Matron. (1) Should the matron of a hospital have her meals with the nurses, resident medical officers, or alone in her own apartments? (2) Under what conditions should the matron and resident medical
... Examples are Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Lit-tle, Brown, 1967); Louis C. Gawth... more ... Examples are Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Lit-tle, Brown, 1967); Louis C. Gawthrop, Bureaucratic Behavior in the Executive Branch (New York: Free Press, 1969); and Robert T. Golembiewski, "Organization Development in Public Agencies," Public ...
... edited by Ali Farazmand Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by KuotsaiT... more ... edited by Ali Farazmand Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by KuotsaiTom Liou Handbook of ... Robert Munzenrider, and Sherrie Bartell Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded, Ferrel Heady Principles ...
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1992
These two books represent a striking departure from the cynicism of the last two decades about th... more These two books represent a striking departure from the cynicism of the last two decades about the possibility of government doing anything to ameliorate the plight of the urban poor. After years of droning criticism of the war on poverty of the 1960s and repeated assertions from our highest national leadership that government is part of the problem, not the solution, these volumes taken together provide a welcome argument for optimism. It is an optimism tempered by experience and chastened by historical and social research, to be sure, but optimism nevertheless. The Promised Land provides the historical backdrop for reconsidering the possibilities of federal action to alleviate urban poverty and the effects of America's tragic flaw-racism. It is a recounting of how we got to where we are in our major urban centers. Lemann traces with sensitivity and vivid imagery the flow of five million black people from the rural South to the cities of the North and West between 1940 and 1970. He typifies the experience of black Americans caught up in "one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements of people in history" (p. 6) through the life of one woman, Ruby Lee Hopkins, who moved from a cotton plantation in Mississippi to Clarksdale, a nearby town, then to Chicago, and finally back to her roots in Clarksdale. Clarksdale is used to represent all those other southern towns from which black people departed in the 1940s and 50s in search of the promised land; Chicago stands for all those northern and western cities in which most of them failed to find it. Lemann not only describes the migration from farm to town to city, he offers an explanation for its occurrence. His thesis is a simple one that might be characterized as technological determinism. Beginning with the invention of cottonpicking machines and continuing through the use of chemical weedkillers, the mechanization of cotton farming displaced black farm laborers and broke up the sharecropping system that had existed since the abolition of slavery. Having lost their
Though citizen trust in government is very important for the legitimacy of the government, there ... more Though citizen trust in government is very important for the legitimacy of the government, there is evidence to show that citizen trust in government is decreasing, not only in the United States of America but also all over the world. Scholars argue that citizen participation and collaborative processes involving citizen stakeholders in government decision-making could lead to increasing citizen trust in government. However, the argument that citizen participation in governance and citizen-government collaboration can lead to increased trust in governance from a conceptual or macro level perspective is difficult to visualize or establish empirically. We suggest that this collaboration and participation has to be at the experiential micro or local government level rather than at the conceptual macro level. Citizen participation in general has to translate into collaborative relationships between specific micro-level citizen organizations and city or local public agencies. We also propose that citizen participation mechanisms like collaborations and cooperative arrangements as well as the processes of collaboration are critical to establish the participation-trust causal relationship. We then present our Learning and Design Forum model as a process that facilitates a sustainable agreement between neighborhood councils and city agencies model for developing mutual trust and collaboration. Public trust of citizens in their government is important for any country. At the macro or national level, public trust provides legitimacy to government decisions (Feldheim and Wang, 2003). Citizen trust is a condition for a healthy democracy (Berresford, 2000a). Citizen trust in government is necessary for "political leaders to make binding decisions and commit resources to attain societal goals" (Chanley, Rudolph and Rahn, 2000, 240). Public disinterest in govern
This article investigates the behavioral consequences of homeowners’ participation in neighborhoo... more This article investigates the behavioral consequences of homeowners’ participation in neighborhood affairs in Beijing, China. The research is based on semistructured interviews with homeowner leaders, property managers, and government officials. Participation fosters ethical citizenship by helping homeowners to acquire democratic skills, increase their awareness of property and political rights, and cultivate a sense of community. The development of ethical citizenship motivates homeowners to redefine legal citizenship. Homeowners have begun to take their rights seriously and actively participate in grassroots elections. The interaction between ethical and legal citizenship may carry important implications for future political development in China.
The citizen participation program of the Los Angeles County Health Systems Agency represents one ... more The citizen participation program of the Los Angeles County Health Systems Agency represents one of the most ambitious efforts at implementing the public involvement provisions of PL 93-641. The first year of this program is discussed and analyzed through a participation costs theoretical framework. Specific costs which are inherent in the organizational design and introduced by the implementation procedures adopted are identified and discussed. Levels of participation after one year of operation are examined and found consistent with the high cost of participation in this program.
We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candida... more We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candidates. We assume that some of the candidates are benevolent and that all voters prefer a benevolent president, i.e. a president who serves the public interest. Yet, political selection may fail in our model because voters cannot easily tell benevolent from egoistic candidates by observing their pre-election behavior. Egoistic types may strategically imitate benevolent types in the pre-election stage to extract rents once in office. We show that strategic imitation is less likely if the political system is likely to produce good governance. That is, if benevolent candidates are common, if the president has little discretionary power, and if the public sector is effective. We analyze the role of institutions like investigative media and re-election and show that they can improve or further hamper political selection, depending on the parameters of the political game.
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