Thaddieus W Conner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thaddieus W Conner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thaddieus W |
| FAMILY NAME | Conner |
| SIGNATURE | CONNER T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1048-0119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Location Is Everything: Proximity and the Diffusion of Tribal-State Gaming Compacts
Research on competition and policy diffusion has made important contributions to our understanding of how political and economic factors influence policy adoption and change. In the following article, I examine how the adoption of Indian gaming compacts between Tribes and state governments are influenced by proximity to surrounding Native nations over 30 years of legal existence. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 created the legal f…
Deserving and engaged: How individual attitudes influence stakeholder engagement
Understanding why public officials engage certain actors in the external environment has received considerable attention in studies of politics and administration. Building from the extensive body of research on how individual preferences influence policy decisions and behavior, I examine how attitudes towards Native American communities impacts levels of stakeholder engagement. Using social construction theory, I explore the relationship between…
Years of Indian Gaming: Reassessing and Still Winning
Objective In this article, we establish the most recent 10‐year and 20‐year impacts of Indian gaming related to income and employment for persons living on tribal lands. Methods We use 1990, 2000, and 2010 U.S. Census data for 361 native nations in the 48 contiguous states. Results We find that Indian gaming continues to have a meaningful impact on income, labor force participation, and unemployment between 1990 and 2010 in tribal areas, both for…
Hot rocks that shoot ghost bullets”: Native American perceptions of a nuclear waste facility
Environmental justice concerns are raised when environmental risks and hazards are inequitably distributed across society. Native American populations have long been at the center of environmental justice disputes, however relatively little quantitative research has examined how Native Americans view the risks related to the siting of a potentially hazardous facility. Combining 35 statewide surveys collected from 1990 to 2001, the following study…
Information versus ideology: Shaping attitudes towards Native American policy
Native American policy is a complex and often poorly understood issue area. Native Americans enjoy a set of rights unique from any other population in the country as established in hundreds of treaties and a right to self-governance that predates the U.S. Constitution. Some scholars believe that American citizens would be more supportive of these policies if they had more information on the rights of tribes. This paper explores the impact of info…
Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance
Collaborative partnerships and stakeholder engagement support an exchange of information, ideas, and resources that are critical to successful policy implementation in the 21st century. Such multiorganizational arrangements accompany expectations that collaboration will lead to improved policy outcomes and organizational performance that would not otherwise be possible in more hierarchical settings. However, our knowledge of how collaborative par…
Cultural Theory and Managerial Values: Examining Trust as a Motivation for Collaboration
Public administration theorists have long argued that values of administrative actors fundamentally shape the quality and nature of the public services they provide. While there has been some work in recent years to measure values in the public sector like Public Service Motivation, we know relatively little about the role that other (more basic) values play in shaping managerial behaviour. To fill this gap, we argue that Cultural Theory ( CT ), …
Representation and Collaboration: Exploring the Role of Shared Identity in the Collaborative Process
Public managers must regularly engage and interact with stakeholders in the external environment to deliver meaningful policy outcomes. Examining the motivations behind such behavior is a critical component of understanding management in the modern era. Some studies suggest that actors with similar interests are more likely to form collaborative partnerships. Using an original mail survey of 150 American Indian education directors in public schoo…
Exploring voting behavior on American Indian legislation in the United States Congress
Using roll call data from 1970 to 2000, this study explores the impacts of partisanship, regionalism, and Indian constituency on congressional pro-Indian voting in the U.S. House and Senate. This study incorporates and tests a new measure of constituency by accounting for the presence of a federally recognized tribe within congressional districts. The presence of an Indian nation has a positive effect on the voting behavior of elected officials c…
Indian gaming and Tribal Revenue Allocation Plans: Socio-economic determinants of policy adoption
As the Indian gaming industry has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two decades, tribes have pursued different paths regarding the utilization of gaming revenues within parameters established by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Since 1993, more than 100 tribes have received approval through the Department of the Interior to distribute revenues directly to tribal members through per capita payments governed by a Tribal Revenue Alloca…
Assessing the Impact of Indian Gaming on American Indian Nations: Is the House Winning
Objective The objective of this article is to examine the impact of Indian gaming on reservation conditions in the contiguous American states following passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. Methods Utilizing 1990 and 2000 Census data for 330 Indian nations, a pretest/posttest design permits a comparison of nongaming nations to three different types of gaming nations on eight economic measures, while controlling for multiple tribal …
Accountability, Affordability, Access: A Review of the Recent Trends in Higher Education Policy Research
The following research note surveys the most recent literature published in the past two years on higher education policy and politics in the United States. We identify three prominent themes in the literature including research on accountability, affordability, and issues concerning access and equity. We observe that there has been increased attention paid to theories of politics by those who study higher education, which has played a vital role…
The Impact of Gaming on the Indian Nations in New Mexico
Objective. This study examines the economic and social impact of Indian gaming on the residents of the 22 pueblos and tribes in New Mexico. Method. We employ a naturally occurring quasi‐experimental design that classifies each of the Indian Nations into one of two groups, gaming and nongaming, depending on the continuous operation of a “Las Vegas” style casino for multiple years in the 1990s. For these two groups we compare aggregate, primarily U…
Information versus ideology: Shaping attitudes towards Native American policy
Native American policy is a complex and often poorly understood issue area. Native Americans enjoy a set of rights unique from any other population in the country as established in hundreds of treaties and a right to self-governance that predates the U.S. Constitution. Some scholars believe that American citizens would be more supportive of these policies if they had more information on the rights of tribes. This paper explores the impact of info…
Cultural Theory and Managerial Values: Examining Trust as a Motivation for Collaboration
Public administration theorists have long argued that values of administrative actors fundamentally shape the quality and nature of the public services they provide. While there has been some work in recent years to measure values in the public sector like Public Service Motivation, we know relatively little about the role that other (more basic) values play in shaping managerial behaviour. To fill this gap, we argue that Cultural Theory ( CT ), …
Exploring voting behavior on American Indian legislation in the United States Congress
Using roll call data from 1970 to 2000, this study explores the impacts of partisanship, regionalism, and Indian constituency on congressional pro-Indian voting in the U.S. House and Senate. This study incorporates and tests a new measure of constituency by accounting for the presence of a federally recognized tribe within congressional districts. The presence of an Indian nation has a positive effect on the voting behavior of elected officials c…
The Impact of Gaming on the Indian Nations in New Mexico
Objective. This study examines the economic and social impact of Indian gaming on the residents of the 22 pueblos and tribes in New Mexico. Method. We employ a naturally occurring quasi‐experimental design that classifies each of the Indian Nations into one of two groups, gaming and nongaming, depending on the continuous operation of a “Las Vegas” style casino for multiple years in the 1990s. For these two groups we compare aggregate, primarily U…
Assessing the Impact of Indian Gaming on American Indian Nations: Is the House Winning
Objective The objective of this article is to examine the impact of Indian gaming on reservation conditions in the contiguous American states following passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. Methods Utilizing 1990 and 2000 Census data for 330 Indian nations, a pretest/posttest design permits a comparison of nongaming nations to three different types of gaming nations on eight economic measures, while controlling for multiple tribal …
Years of Indian Gaming: Reassessing and Still Winning
Objective In this article, we establish the most recent 10‐year and 20‐year impacts of Indian gaming related to income and employment for persons living on tribal lands. Methods We use 1990, 2000, and 2010 U.S. Census data for 361 native nations in the 48 contiguous states. Results We find that Indian gaming continues to have a meaningful impact on income, labor force participation, and unemployment between 1990 and 2010 in tribal areas, both for…
Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance
Collaborative partnerships and stakeholder engagement support an exchange of information, ideas, and resources that are critical to successful policy implementation in the 21st century. Such multiorganizational arrangements accompany expectations that collaboration will lead to improved policy outcomes and organizational performance that would not otherwise be possible in more hierarchical settings. However, our knowledge of how collaborative par…
Indian gaming and Tribal Revenue Allocation Plans: Socio-economic determinants of policy adoption
As the Indian gaming industry has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two decades, tribes have pursued different paths regarding the utilization of gaming revenues within parameters established by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Since 1993, more than 100 tribes have received approval through the Department of the Interior to distribute revenues directly to tribal members through per capita payments governed by a Tribal Revenue Alloca…
The Impact of Gaming on the Indian Nations in New Mexico
Objective. This study examines the economic and social impact of Indian gaming on the residents of the 22 pueblos and tribes in New Mexico. Method. We employ a naturally occurring quasi‐experimental design that classifies each of the Indian Nations into one of two groups, gaming and nongaming, depending on the continuous operation of a “Las Vegas” style casino for multiple years in the 1990s. For these two groups we compare aggregate, primarily U…
Accountability, Affordability, Access: A Review of the Recent Trends in Higher Education Policy Research
The following research note surveys the most recent literature published in the past two years on higher education policy and politics in the United States. We identify three prominent themes in the literature including research on accountability, affordability, and issues concerning access and equity. We observe that there has been increased attention paid to theories of politics by those who study higher education, which has played a vital role…
Indian gaming and Tribal Revenue Allocation Plans: Socio-economic determinants of policy adoption
As the Indian gaming industry has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two decades, tribes have pursued different paths regarding the utilization of gaming revenues within parameters established by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Since 1993, more than 100 tribes have received approval through the Department of the Interior to distribute revenues directly to tribal members through per capita payments governed by a Tribal Revenue Alloca…
Assessing the Impact of Indian Gaming on American Indian Nations: Is the House Winning
Objective The objective of this article is to examine the impact of Indian gaming on reservation conditions in the contiguous American states following passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. Methods Utilizing 1990 and 2000 Census data for 330 Indian nations, a pretest/posttest design permits a comparison of nongaming nations to three different types of gaming nations on eight economic measures, while controlling for multiple tribal …
Exploring voting behavior on American Indian legislation in the United States Congress
Using roll call data from 1970 to 2000, this study explores the impacts of partisanship, regionalism, and Indian constituency on congressional pro-Indian voting in the U.S. House and Senate. This study incorporates and tests a new measure of constituency by accounting for the presence of a federally recognized tribe within congressional districts. The presence of an Indian nation has a positive effect on the voting behavior of elected officials c…
Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance
Collaborative partnerships and stakeholder engagement support an exchange of information, ideas, and resources that are critical to successful policy implementation in the 21st century. Such multiorganizational arrangements accompany expectations that collaboration will lead to improved policy outcomes and organizational performance that would not otherwise be possible in more hierarchical settings. However, our knowledge of how collaborative par…
Cultural Theory and Managerial Values: Examining Trust as a Motivation for Collaboration
Public administration theorists have long argued that values of administrative actors fundamentally shape the quality and nature of the public services they provide. While there has been some work in recent years to measure values in the public sector like Public Service Motivation, we know relatively little about the role that other (more basic) values play in shaping managerial behaviour. To fill this gap, we argue that Cultural Theory ( CT ), …
Representation and Collaboration: Exploring the Role of Shared Identity in the Collaborative Process
Public managers must regularly engage and interact with stakeholders in the external environment to deliver meaningful policy outcomes. Examining the motivations behind such behavior is a critical component of understanding management in the modern era. Some studies suggest that actors with similar interests are more likely to form collaborative partnerships. Using an original mail survey of 150 American Indian education directors in public schoo…
Information versus ideology: Shaping attitudes towards Native American policy
Native American policy is a complex and often poorly understood issue area. Native Americans enjoy a set of rights unique from any other population in the country as established in hundreds of treaties and a right to self-governance that predates the U.S. Constitution. Some scholars believe that American citizens would be more supportive of these policies if they had more information on the rights of tribes. This paper explores the impact of info…
Hot rocks that shoot ghost bullets”: Native American perceptions of a nuclear waste facility
Environmental justice concerns are raised when environmental risks and hazards are inequitably distributed across society. Native American populations have long been at the center of environmental justice disputes, however relatively little quantitative research has examined how Native Americans view the risks related to the siting of a potentially hazardous facility. Combining 35 statewide surveys collected from 1990 to 2001, the following study…
Years of Indian Gaming: Reassessing and Still Winning
Objective In this article, we establish the most recent 10‐year and 20‐year impacts of Indian gaming related to income and employment for persons living on tribal lands. Methods We use 1990, 2000, and 2010 U.S. Census data for 361 native nations in the 48 contiguous states. Results We find that Indian gaming continues to have a meaningful impact on income, labor force participation, and unemployment between 1990 and 2010 in tribal areas, both for…
Deserving and engaged: How individual attitudes influence stakeholder engagement
Understanding why public officials engage certain actors in the external environment has received considerable attention in studies of politics and administration. Building from the extensive body of research on how individual preferences influence policy decisions and behavior, I examine how attitudes towards Native American communities impacts levels of stakeholder engagement. Using social construction theory, I explore the relationship between…
Location Is Everything: Proximity and the Diffusion of Tribal-State Gaming Compacts
Research on competition and policy diffusion has made important contributions to our understanding of how political and economic factors influence policy adoption and change. In the following article, I examine how the adoption of Indian gaming compacts between Tribes and state governments are influenced by proximity to surrounding Native nations over 30 years of legal existence. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 created the legal f…
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