Using a global and multi-generational approach, this volume reveals the persistent need to engage as a scholarly community with questions of public ethics and citizenship. Grounded in Prof. Terry Cooper’s scholarship, the editors and contributors bridge the past to the future while applying research to critical concerns of today.

Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice, and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and ultimately the future of scholarship in public ethics and citizen engagement. This “multi-generational” approach is designed to reveal the persistent and future ongoing need to engage as a scholarly and practitioner community with these questions. The book is broken into three main sections: citizenship and neighborhood governance, public service ethics and citizenship, and global explorations of citizenship and ethics. Unique in this collection is the explicit linkage across the main focus areas of citizenship and ethics, as well as the comparative and global context in which these issues are explored. Cases and data are examined from the United States, Chile, Thailand, India, China, Georgia, and Myanmar. Ultimately, it is made clear through each individual chapter and the collective whole that research on citizenship and ethics within public affairs and service has a rich history, remains critical to the strengthening of public institutions today, and will only increase in global significance in the years ahead.

Preface: Reflections from Terry L. Cooper

PART I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Citizenship and Ethics: Significance of the Questions

Thomas Bryer

PART II: Citizenship and Neighborhood Governance

Chapter 2: How and When can Citizens Most Meaningfully Represent Themselves in Public Policy and Service Delivery Processes

Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Chapter 3: Analyzing Citizen-Centered Collaborative Management--the “Who” and the “How”

Alfred T. Ho and Michael Wu

Chapter 4: Citizen-Centered Capacity Building for Sustainability

Jack W. Meek and Stephanie Britt

Chapter 5: The Boundary Setting of Collaborative Governance: Why are Civic Organizations Often Excluded?

Weijie Wang

Chapter 6: The Impact of Social Media Adoption on Citizen Trust

Daniel Seigler and Sarah Stoeckel

Chapter 7: Citizen Participation 2.0? Examining Social Media Use by Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils

Seongho An and Chao Guo

PART III: Public Service Ethics and Citizenship

Chapter 8: The Role of Ethical Citizenship in Advancing Immigrant Integration in the United States

Pamela Medina

Chapter 9: Insights from Behavioral Sciences for Reducing Systemic Corruption

Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

Chapter 10: A Survey of the FIeld in Response to the ‘Big Questions’ in Administrative Ethics

Wanzhu Shi and Mehnaaz Momen

Part IV: Global Explorations of Citizenship, Ethics, and Related Questions

Chapter 11: Testing Cooper’s Ethical Decision-Making Model among Chilean Civil Servants: Is It Pertinent for Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in a Developing Country

Cristian Pliscoff

Chapter 12: Network Governance in East Asia: Implications for Comparative Public Administration

Ruechagorn Trairatananusorn

Chapter 13: Developing the TS-iPASS Using the Learning and Design Forum Concepts

Pradeep Chandra Kathi

Chapter 14: Governing the Neighborhood with Confucian Ideas

Wai-Hang Yee, Weijie Wang, and Terry L. Cooper

Chapter 15: The Role of Media in Humanitarian Crisis Intervention: An Analysis of the Case of Aylan Kurdi

Vishnu Muraleedharan

Chapter 16: Chinese Homeowner Associations: An Innovation in China’s Urban Neighborhood

Feng Wang

Part V: Conclusion and Future Directions

Chapter 17: Citizenship and Ethics: Current Status and Future Directions

So Hee Jeon