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The First Nations Governance Act: Implications of Research Findings from the United States and Canada
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by Stephen Cornell, Miriam Jorgensen, and Joseph P. Kalt
Report on First Nations Governance Act
July 2002    22p.    Free
   
Current Issues in Indian Health Policy
PDF (1,392 kb)
by Yvette Roubideaux
Explores the impact of recent changes within both the Indian health care system and the U.S. health care system, and the impacts of those changes on Indian health. Provides an overview of current issues in Indian health policy such as key Indian health legislation and the American Indian/Alaska Native population's demographics, health status, and sources for health care.
2002    17p.    ISBN 1-931143-16-1    $2

An Analysis of the Economic Impact of American Indian Gaming on the State of Arizona
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by Stephen Cornell and Jonathan Taylor
Clarifies some aspects of the nature of Indian gaming and provides a gross analysis of its economic impacts. Employs newly available data on Indian casino operations around the state to provide an estimate-decidedly conservative-of the spending effects of Indian casinos on the Arizona economy.
2001    11p.    $4   

Welfare, Work, and American Indians: The Impact of Welfare Reform
PDF (426 kb)
by Eddie Brown, Stephen Cornell, et al.
Reviews the key features of recent welfare reform legislation as it applies to American Indians and Indian Country, assesses its impact on Indian nations and the chances of achieving the legislation's goals, and identifies key issues that demand attention if welfare reform is to succeed on Indian lands. Published with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University .
2001    66p.    $2   

“Enhancing Rural Leadership and Institutions: What Can We Learn from American Indian Nations?”
by Stephen Cornell
January 2001, International Regional Science Review, 24, 1, 84-102
Analyzes recent Indian reservation experience, concluding that local control, strategic thinking, effective governing institutions, and leadership all have played key roles in reservation development success. It considers implications of these findings for leadership and institutions in rural America

Sovereignty, Devolution, and the Future of Tribal-State Relations
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by Stephen Cornell and Jonathan Taylor
Examines the overall state of state-tribal relations, the changes that are reshaping them, and the implications of those changes for Indian nations. Reviews the arguments both for and against genuine, government-to-government, sovereignty-based relationships between tribes and the states, and then summarizes the implications for tribal-state relations.
2000    10p.    $3   

“Where's the Glue? Institutional and Cultural Foundations of American Indian Economic Development”
by Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt
2000, Journal of Socio-Economics, 29, 5, 443-70
Reports the results of research into the sources of development success during the "take-off" stage of self-government. Little evidence is found to support hypotheses that resource or human capital endowments hold keys to launching Indian economies. Instead, tribal constitutional forms appear to be make-or-break keys to development.

Strategic Analysis for Native Nations
by Stephen Cornell
Provides an analytic tool for use by Indian nations, Indian-owned or -operated corporations or companies, Indian entrepreneurs, and other Native entities seeking to promote economic development in Native communities. Offers a relatively quick, self-administered, intermediate step designed to assist Indian organizations in thinking through their situations and their options, and in improving the quality of their economic decisions.
1999    31p.    $6

American Indian Gaming Policy and its Socio-Economic Effects: A report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission
by Stephen Cornell, Joseph Kalt, Matthew Krepps, and Jonathan Taylor
Report of a study to assess the economic and social impacts that Indian gaming operations have both on and off reservations. The authors find that the positive social and economic impacts of gaming far outweigh the negative impacts.
1998   79p.    $5

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