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Exploring the Influence of Tribal Governance Capacity: Evidence from Internet Availability in Indian Country

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The lack of internet access on American Indian lands is a frequently discussed component of greater socioeconomic inequalities faced by American indigenous communities. In this paper, I identify the impact of the unique barriers to development in Indian Country on internet infrastructure. Using data on internet availability at the census block level from 2014 to 2019, I apply a spatial matching strategy to identify similar native and non-native census blocks to estimate the effect of tribal land designation on cable internet availability. Finding a significant, negative effect for land in Indian Country, I then examine four possible determinants of tribal government capacity (gaming business, federal funding, participation in self-governance compacts, and a reservation economic freedom index) to explore how they may reduce the gap in internet availability. I find that only one of these four measures, compacting, is correlated with improved internet access in Indian Country.

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  • NR Brouwer, 2024. "Exploring the Influence of Tribal Governance Capacity: Evidence from Internet Availability in Indian Country," Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 5(2), pages 179-207, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlpip:113.00000098
    DOI: 10.1561/113.00000098
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