Ruth H. DeHoog University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

Ruth Hoogland DeHoog is professor of political science and director of the MPA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research on public sector contracting and service delivery, local government leadership, nonprofit management and other topics has been published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, American Political Science Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, Public Administration Review, Administration and Society and other journals. She has also published two books. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University in 1981.