Ruth H. DeHoog

EDUCATION: Ph.D.---Michigan State University, E. Lansing, June 1981, Political Science; M.A.---Michigan State University, E. Lansing, December 1977, Political Science; B.A.---Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 1975, Political Science. ACADEMIC POSITIONS : Dept. of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1990- [Head (2002- ), Professor (1999- ), Associate Professor (1990-99), Director of the MPA Program (1990-2001)]; 1986-90 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 1981-86 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida. Teaching areas: public administration, organizational behavior, urban management,and privatization. Research areas: community development, government-nonprofit relations.

There are 17 included publications by Ruth H. DeHoog :

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“Citizen Satisfaction With Local Government Services: A Test of Individual, Jurisdictional, and City Specific Explanations 1990 7208 What are the sources of citizen satisfaction with local government? Our answers to this question remain fragmentary due to limits in our tools of investigation which have not been well suited for disentangling individual- and jurisdictional-level det...
Citizenship in the Empowered Locality: An Elaboration, Critique, and a Partial Test 1992 3129 Although liberal and communitarian interpretations of citizenship differ profoundly, they nevertheless offer essentially similar prescriptions in support of empowered localities. The authors argue, instead, that the rejected alternative of consolidat...
City Managers Under Fire: How Conflict Leads to Turnover 1991 4633 To evaluate the influence of turnover among city management professionals, data were gathered and analyzed in a study that followed the careers of 133 city managers in Florida since 1986. In contrast to previous studies, conflict was found to be a fr...
Competition, Negotiation, and Cooperation: Three Models for Service Contracting 1990 7996 Contracting for public services from public or private suppliers is now a common prescription to improve government efficiency. The competitive bidding model is usually viewed as the ideal contracting process. However, this article explains that two ...
Connecting a University to a Distant Neighborhood: Three Stages of Learning and Adaptation 2004 1639 The willingness on the part of university participants to listen attentively to community representatives is of great importance to successful collaborations. This article presents three phases of a university-community partnership between the Macedo...
Contracting for Human Services: What We Have Learned and an Rx for the Future 1996 1379 This article examines some of the major trends in social service contracting and what has been learned about it in the past 15 or 20 years. Enormous strides have been made in understanding alternative approaches to service delivery, as well as in rea...
The empirical evidence for citizen information and a local market for public goods 1995 1345 In their 1993 article in this Review, Paul Teske, Mark Schneider, Michael Mintrom, and Samuel Best sought to establish the microfoundations for a model of a competitive market for public 5 services between local governments in polycentric regions. An...
Evaluating Human Services Contracting: Managers, Professionals, and Politicos 1986 1944 When state and local governments contract out for human services, the purchasing process is often affected by the value perspectives of the participants. The contracting system is shaped by differing approaches of three participant types: (1) the man...
Human Services Contracting: Environmental, Behavioral, and Organizational Conditions 1985 2642 Government's practice of contracting out with outside organizations for public services has become a major recommendation for cutting costs and improving service delivery. However, few scholars have examined this alternative in terms of the requisite...
Invited Commentary on Brown, Potoski, and Van Slyke, “Managing Public Service Contracts: Aligning Values, Institutions, and Markets 2006 1530 Since contracting for public services has become a primary tool in the toolkit of elected and administrative officials over the last two decades, it is heartening to see the growth of interest and research on the subject. The Brown, Potoski, and Van...
Long Term Socio-Demographic Challenges Facing the Greater Greensboro Area: New Opportunities 2008 2086 Our community faces several socio-demographic challenges that have the potential to significantly impact the Greater Greensboro area. These social trends are especially related to broad demographic shifts in the population (e.g., age, ethnic compo...
Metropolitan Fragmentation and Suburban Ghettos: Some Empirical Observations on Institutional Racism 1991 4492 Are citizens in predominantly black neighborhoods or communities better off with public services provided by a consolidated government where blacks are in the minority than when they control municipal government in an autonomous suburban setting? Thi...
Professional Leadership in Local Government 1993 6548 Local public service professionals are experts who temper their use of expertise with public service ethics. Public service ethics differ from the ethical codes of most professions in that they stress external accountability. Ethical codes of private...
Responding to the needs and Challenges of arts entrepreneurship: An exploratory study of arts entrepreneurship in North Carolina higher education 2014 1384 To address the call for examination of academic and professional approaches to arts entrepreneurship, we summarize the academic arts entrepreneurship programs in the State ofNorth Carolina and conduct a pilot study with data gathered from arts entrep...
The Role of the Nonprofit Sector Amid Political Change: Contrasting Approaches in the Slovak Republic 2003 1942 This paper focuses on the role, functions, and activities of the nonprofit sector in Slovakia from 1993 to 1998 during a critical time in the country’s development, using Salamon’s classification of the sector’s relationships with government as oppos...
Tax and Spending Effects of Municipal Enterprises: The Case of Florida Electric Utilities 1988 4353 This study tests the appropriateness of two competing hypotheses drawn from the public finance literature about the impact of municipal utility profits on local tax and spending patterns. By comparing data from cities that own their electric utilitie...
With Heart and Soul: Closing a Faith-Based Refugee Resettlement Office 2011 1183 This paper begins with a brief review of the literature on nonprofit and faith-based service organizations, many of whom rely on government grants and contracts. The following section summarizes refugee resettlement policy and partners in the U.S an...