Ross Gittell
Biographic Data
| ID | 259120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Gittell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Gittell |
| SIGNATURE | GITTELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marilyn Gittell
Activist Scholar highlights Professor Gittell’s writings on community organizations, citizen participation, urban politics, the politics of education, and gender. She specialized in applied and comparative research on local, regional, national, and international policies and politics, and placed a high priority on training researchers and scholars. Marilyn Gittell was a mentor to hundreds of students in the City University of New York system, and…
Constrained Choices and Persistent Gender Inequity: The Economic Status of Working Women in a High-Income, Low-Poverty State With Lessons for Others
This paper reports on exploratory research in New Hampshire, a state which has socio-economic characteristics-including strong long-term economic performance, high levels of educational achievement among women and low poverty-that would seem to foster gender earnings equity. Yet, New Hampshire has the fourth lowest gender earnings equity in the nation. The detailed exploration of this state's experience highlights that to reach a higher plateau o…
Charitable Giving: Factors Influencing Giving in U.S. States
Charitable giving by households in the United States is significant. More than two thirds of households self-report giving. Private giving represents more than 2% of total gross domestic product (GDP) and is a significant factor in funding the nonprofit sector. This research note documents giving across U.S. states. It adds detailed data and analysis supporting and supplementing research that identifies personal income, capital gains, religious g…
The information economy and American cities. State enterprise zone programs: Have they worked
High Technology and State Higher Education Policy: Myths and Realities
It is difficult to justify increased state government support for higher education using arguments based only on how higher education contributes to economic growth. The authors find no strong relationship between state funding of higher education and employment concentration in high-technology industries. Instead, they find that investment in public higher education will tend to be lower than justified on economic efficiency grounds because of t…
Community Development Corporations: Critical Factors That Influence Success
With federal devolution and the ascendancy of community-based development strategies to center stage, the role of community development corporations (CDCs) has gained significance. This analysis focuses on programmatic and organizational attributes of CDCs that affect community development success. Success is defined as a CDC’s contribution to the improvement of residents’ access to financial resources, physical resources, human resources, econom…
Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy
This book provides new insights into an important national community development challenge: how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Using evaluation research and detailed comparative study of community development activity in three diverse demonstration sites; Little Rock, New Orleans and Palm Beach county, the author…
State Government Efforts in Industrial Modernization: Using Theory to Guide Practice
GITTELL R. J. and KAUFMAN A. (1996) State government efforts in industrial modernization: using theory to guide practice, Reg. Studies 30, 477–492. This paper presents a theoretical framework that incorporates economic and political considerations to gain insight into state government industrial modernization efforts. The discussion highlights how information asymmetries and ‘traditional’ business norms may justify the organization of a public ma…
Managing the Development Process: Community Strategies in Economic Revitalization
This paper considers community strategies in economic revitalization. Guidelines are proposed for local economic development practitioners and as a framework for further research. Findings are based on extensive analysis and comparative study of economic development efforts in four medium-sized industrialized cities in the northeastern United States. The role of motivating, organizing, and diagnostic agents, including crisis situations, community…
Community Development Corporations: Critical Factors That Influence Success
With federal devolution and the ascendancy of community-based development strategies to center stage, the role of community development corporations (CDCs) has gained significance. This analysis focuses on programmatic and organizational attributes of CDCs that affect community development success. Success is defined as a CDC’s contribution to the improvement of residents’ access to financial resources, physical resources, human resources, econom…
Managing the Development Process: Community Strategies in Economic Revitalization
This paper considers community strategies in economic revitalization. Guidelines are proposed for local economic development practitioners and as a framework for further research. Findings are based on extensive analysis and comparative study of economic development efforts in four medium-sized industrialized cities in the northeastern United States. The role of motivating, organizing, and diagnostic agents, including crisis situations, community…
Constrained Choices and Persistent Gender Inequity: The Economic Status of Working Women in a High-Income, Low-Poverty State With Lessons for Others
This paper reports on exploratory research in New Hampshire, a state which has socio-economic characteristics-including strong long-term economic performance, high levels of educational achievement among women and low poverty-that would seem to foster gender earnings equity. Yet, New Hampshire has the fourth lowest gender earnings equity in the nation. The detailed exploration of this state's experience highlights that to reach a higher plateau o…
High Technology and State Higher Education Policy: Myths and Realities
It is difficult to justify increased state government support for higher education using arguments based only on how higher education contributes to economic growth. The authors find no strong relationship between state funding of higher education and employment concentration in high-technology industries. Instead, they find that investment in public higher education will tend to be lower than justified on economic efficiency grounds because of t…
Managing the Development Process: Community Strategies in Economic Revitalization
This paper considers community strategies in economic revitalization. Guidelines are proposed for local economic development practitioners and as a framework for further research. Findings are based on extensive analysis and comparative study of economic development efforts in four medium-sized industrialized cities in the northeastern United States. The role of motivating, organizing, and diagnostic agents, including crisis situations, community…
State Government Efforts in Industrial Modernization: Using Theory to Guide Practice
GITTELL R. J. and KAUFMAN A. (1996) State government efforts in industrial modernization: using theory to guide practice, Reg. Studies 30, 477–492. This paper presents a theoretical framework that incorporates economic and political considerations to gain insight into state government industrial modernization efforts. The discussion highlights how information asymmetries and ‘traditional’ business norms may justify the organization of a public ma…
Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy
This book provides new insights into an important national community development challenge: how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Using evaluation research and detailed comparative study of community development activity in three diverse demonstration sites; Little Rock, New Orleans and Palm Beach county, the author…
Community Development Corporations: Critical Factors That Influence Success
With federal devolution and the ascendancy of community-based development strategies to center stage, the role of community development corporations (CDCs) has gained significance. This analysis focuses on programmatic and organizational attributes of CDCs that affect community development success. Success is defined as a CDC’s contribution to the improvement of residents’ access to financial resources, physical resources, human resources, econom…
High Technology and State Higher Education Policy: Myths and Realities
It is difficult to justify increased state government support for higher education using arguments based only on how higher education contributes to economic growth. The authors find no strong relationship between state funding of higher education and employment concentration in high-technology industries. Instead, they find that investment in public higher education will tend to be lower than justified on economic efficiency grounds because of t…
The information economy and American cities. State enterprise zone programs: Have they worked
Charitable Giving: Factors Influencing Giving in U.S. States
Charitable giving by households in the United States is significant. More than two thirds of households self-report giving. Private giving represents more than 2% of total gross domestic product (GDP) and is a significant factor in funding the nonprofit sector. This research note documents giving across U.S. states. It adds detailed data and analysis supporting and supplementing research that identifies personal income, capital gains, religious g…
Constrained Choices and Persistent Gender Inequity: The Economic Status of Working Women in a High-Income, Low-Poverty State With Lessons for Others
This paper reports on exploratory research in New Hampshire, a state which has socio-economic characteristics-including strong long-term economic performance, high levels of educational achievement among women and low poverty-that would seem to foster gender earnings equity. Yet, New Hampshire has the fourth lowest gender earnings equity in the nation. The detailed exploration of this state's experience highlights that to reach a higher plateau o…
Activist Scholar: Selected Works of Marilyn Gittell
Activist Scholar highlights Professor Gittell’s writings on community organizations, citizen participation, urban politics, the politics of education, and gender. She specialized in applied and comparative research on local, regional, national, and international policies and politics, and placed a high priority on training researchers and scholars. Marilyn Gittell was a mentor to hundreds of students in the City University of New York system, and…
Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Community development (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works)