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56 Gonz. L. Rev. 483 (2020-2021)
The Tribal per Capita Payment Conundrum: Governance, Culture, and Incentives

handle is hein.journals/gonlr56 and id is 507 raw text is: THE TRIBAL PER CAPITA PAYMENT CONUNDRUM: GOVERNANCE, CULTURE, AND INCENTIVES Adam Crepelle* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................................................ 484 I. SOCIOECONOMIC DATA ....................................................................... 487 II. HISTORY OF TRIBAL PER CAPITA PAYMENTS...................................... 489 III. RULES GOVERNING TRIBAL CASINO PER CAPITA PAYMENTS............. 493 IV. POSITIVE EFFECTS OF PER CAPITA PAYMENTS.................................... 495 V. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS WITH PER CAPITA PAYMENTS............................ 498 A. Per Capita Payments and Governance........................................498 1. Public Choice and Free Money Outside of Indian Country... 501 2. Tribes and Per Cap Related Governance Problems ............... 505 B. Per Capita Payments and Dependency........................................ 510 1. Unearned Income and Its Impact on People .......................... 511 2. Per Capita Payments and Tribal Sociocultural Problems ...... 514 VI. INCENTIVES ARE THE ANSWER............................................................ 519 CONCLUSION................................................................................................... 527 * Associate Professor at Southern University Law Center (SULC). Managing Fellow of SULC's Native American Law and Policy Institute. Research Fellow of the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. Thanks to Joseph Austin, Thomas Flanagan, Bruce Johnsen, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Dominic Parker for their comments on this paper. 483

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