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You need to answer the following questions/prompts (in no less than 150 words per answer) focusing
on expressing accurate knowledge as presented in the course. Use the textbook Cooper, T. L. (2012).
The responsible administrator: An approach to ethics for the administrative. (6th ed.). John Wiley &
Sons. To answer the questions
1. Explain the difference between ethics, morality, and legality. (Key: review readings assigned for Week
2)
2. (a) What is public service ethics and (b) what are its foundations (e.g., public service values/duties,
virtues, and principles)? (Key: review readings assigned for Weeks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9)
3. Explain the difference between ethics and integrity. (Key: review readings assigned for Week 2)
4. What are the responsibilities of public administrators? (Key: review readings/any notes that you may
have taken during my lecture in Week 3, in particular, as well as in Weeks 6, 7, 8, and 9)
5. What does it mean to advance the public interest? (Key: review readings/any notes that you may have
taken during my lecture in Weeks 2 and 3)
6. Explain the difference between virtue ethics, deontology (i.e., principle), and teleology (i.e.,
consequences). (Key: review readings/any notes that you may have taken during my lecture in Weeks 5,
6, 7, and 9)
7. What are the internal good of public administration? (Key: review Terry Cooper’s articles Cooper, T. L.
(1987). Hierarchy, virtue, and the practice of public administration: A perspective for normative ethics.
Public Administration Review
,
47
(4), 320. https://doi.org/10.2307/975312)
8. Explain the difference between the conventional view of professionalism (i.e., efficiency, economy, and
effectiveness, per Rosembloom) and the one advanced by Terry Cooper. (Key: review Terry Cooper’s
articles assigned for Weeks 5 and 6)
9. Explain the difference between the conventional view of the citizen and the one advanced by Terry
Cooper, primarily, and complemented by that of Camila Stivers and Kalu N. Kalu. (Key: review Kalu, K. N.
(2003). Of citizenship, virtue, and the administrative imperative: Deconstructing aristotelian civic
republicanism.
Public Administration Review
,
63
(4), 418–427.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00305
and Cooper, T. L. (1987). Hierarchy, virtue, and the practice of public administration: A perspective for
normative ethics. Public Administration Review, 47(4), 320. https://doi.org/10.2307/975312
10. Explain how (a) civic virtue (Key: review Terry Cooper’s articles Cooper, T. L. (1987). Hierarchy, virtue,
and the practice of public administration: A perspective for normative ethics. Public Administration
Review, 47(4), 320. https://doi.org/10.2307/975312), (b) regime values (Key: review John Rohr’s article
Rohr, J. A. (1976). The study of ethics in the P. A. curriculum. Public Administration Review, 36(4), 398.
https://doi.org/10.2307/974844), and (c) Constitutional values/principles/founding thought (Key: review
William Richardson and Lloyd Nigro’s articles Richardson, W. D., & Nigro, L. G. (1987). Administrative
ethics and founding thought: Constitutional correctives, honor, and education. Public Administration
Review, 47(5), 367.
https://doi.org/10.2307/976061
and Rohr, J. A. (1976). The study of ethics in the P. A.
curriculum. Public Administration Review, 36(4), 398. https://doi.org/10.2307/974844) should guide the
thinking and actions of public servants.
11. Explain how the psychological tendencies discussed by James Bowman and Jonathan West (Key:
review Bowman, J. S. (2018). Thinking about thinking: Beyond decision-making rationalism and the
emergence of behavioral ethics. Public Integrity, 20(sup1), S89–S105.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2017.1410461) influence the thinking and actions of people when
they are faced with ethical dilemmas.
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