Portrait of Dr. Thomas Longoria Jr.

Dr. Thomas Longoria Jr.

  • Professor at Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2023

  • Longoria, T., & Manganaro, L. L. (2023). The Determinants of Voting for Republican Congressional Candidates in the Texas Borderlands. Social Science Quarterly, 104(7). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13321

2021

  • Longoria, T., & Milford, J. (2021). Explaining Borderlands Local Government Administrators’ Perceived Responsibility to Aid Asylum-Seeking Migrants. Journal of Borderlands Studies.

2020

  • Milford, J., & Longoria, T. (2020, April). Immigration at our Back Door:  Implementing Solutions in the Rio Grande Valley.

2017

  • Longoria, T., Budd, D. M., & Manganaro, L. L. (2017). Support for Gender Equality Duty Strategies among Local Government Officials in Texas. In Beyond Reform: Leadership and Change in Public Sector Organizations. Routledge (Taylor and Francis).

2016

  • Longoria, T., Budd, D., & Myers, A. (2016). The Role of a Gendered Policy Agenda in Closing the Mayoral Ambition Gap: The Case of Texas Female City Council Members. Journal of Research on Women and Gender, 81–93.

2014

  • Longoria, T. (2014). Are We All Equal at Death?: Death Competence in Municipal Cemetery Management. Death Studies, 355–364.
  • Longoria, T., & Rangarajan, N. (2014). Measuring Public Manager Cultural Competence: The Influence of Public Sector Values. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, 21(1), 24–41. Retrieved from http://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/jpmsp/vol21/iss1/3/

2013

  • Longoria, T. (2013). Predicting Use and Solicitation of Payments in Lieu of Taxes. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 338–354.

2012

  • Longoria, T., & Manganaro, L. (2012). Citizen Approval of CAOs in Texas Cities:  An Exploratory Analysis of Anglo and Latino Attitudes. Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, 49–63.

2011

  • Longoria, T. (2011). Local Government Financial Manager Perceptions Associated with Payments in Lieu of Taxes:  An Exploratory Study.

2010

  • Longoria, T., Rocha, R., Wrinkle, R., & Knoll, B. (2010). Ethnic Context and Immigration Policy Preferences among Latinos and Anglos. Social Science Quarterly, 19-Jan.
  • Longoria, T., & Brown, R. (2010). Multiple risk factors for lead poisoning in Hispanic sub-populations: A Review. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 715–725.
  • Longoria, T. (2010). Citizen Awareness of Form of Government: The Role of Ethnicity and Salience of Representation and Race and Institutional Reform in US Cities.
  • Longoria, T. (2010). Hope and Change or Hoping for Change?:  The Obama Effect on Support for US Foreign Policy.
  • Longoria, T. (2010). Local Government Institutional Reform: Lessons from the US.
  • Longoria, T. (2010). Residential soil lead (Pb) contamination in Lubbock Texas: Preliminary results.
  • Longoria, T. (2010). The Role of the Social Sciences in Corporate Social Responsibility.

2008

  • Longoria, T., Brown, R., Gonzales, C., Hooper, M., Bayat, A., Fornerette, A., … Mielke, H. (2008). Soil lead (Pb) in residential transects through Lubbock, Texas: A preliminary assessment. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 541–547.

2007

  • Longoria, T. (2007). A Profile of the Nonprofit Sector in West Texas.
  • Longoria, T. (2007). Contextual Determinates of Public Opinion Toward Immigration.

2006

  • Longoria, T. (2006). Diffusion of Innovation or Innovation in Dilution?:  Institutional Changes and Minority Political Influence the Case of El Paso Texas.
  • Longoria, T. (2006). Governing Coalitions and Patterns of Employment of Minorities in Urban School Districts.
  • Longoria, T. (2006). Ports-to-Plains Trucking Industry Survey.
  • Longoria, T. (2006). Support of the Adoption of a City-County Consolidation:  The Case of Wyandotte County.

2005

  • Longoria, T. (2005). Nonprofits on the Texas-Mexico Border:  Organizational Capacity and Collaboration.

2003

  • Longoria, T., & Manganaro, L. (2003). School Crime in the United States: A Brief Analysis of Patterns and Trends. In Policing and School Crime. Prentice Hall.
  • Longoria, T., & Mack, W. R. (2003). School-Based Violent Crime in Texas. In Policing and School Crime. Prentice Hall.

2002

  • Longoria, T., & Weaver, W. (2002). Bureaucracy That Kills:  Federal Sovereign Immunity and the  Discretionary Function Exception. American Political Science Review, 351–366.
  • Longoria, T. (2002). Immigration, Social Capital, and Political Participation.

2000

  • Longoria, T. (2000). Predicting Successful Completion of Worker Retraining Programs:  The Case of NAFTA Displaced Workers.
  • Longoria, T. (2000). PRI Primary Voters in Ciudad Juarez:  A Look at Democratization in Mexico.
  • Longoria, T. (2000). Third Sector Development in Mexico:  Sub-national, Organizational, and Individual-Level Perspectives.

1999

  • Longoria, T. (1999). The Distribution of Public-Private Partnerships: Targeting of Voluntary Efforts to Improve Urban Education. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 315–329.
  • Longoria, T. (1999). The Impact of Office on Cross-Racial Voting:  Evidence from the 1996 Milwaukee Mayoral Election. Urban Affairs Review, 596–603.
  • Longoria, T. (1999). Affinity between Groups and Latino Pan-ethnicity.
  • Longoria, T. (1999). Context, Identity, and Incorporation:  Are Latinos in the Midwest Different? In Minority Politics at the Millennium. Garland Publishing.

1998

  • Longoria, T. (1998). Education Politics Houston Style: The Role of Business in Education Reform. In Changing Urban Education.

1997

  • Longoria, T., & Velez, W. (1997). Academic Performance and Ethnic Consciousness of Latino Students at a Midwestern University. Latino Studies Journal, 82–96.
  • Longoria, T. (1997). Coalitions and Conflict in Urban Education Reform.
  • Longoria, T. (1997). Latino Descriptive and Policy Representation in the Midwest: Does the Political Resources Model Apply?

1996

  • Longoria, T. (1996). White Attitudes Toward Minority Districts. Social Science Quarterly, 877–887.

1995

  • Longoria, T. (1995). Institutional Reforms and Civic Capacity:  A Comparative Analysis of Sunbelt Cities.
  • Longoria, T. (1995). Predicting Litigation Against Congressional and State Legislative Plans:  A Preliminary Analysis.

1994

  • Longoria, T. (1994). Name that Problem:  Education Reform on the Urban Agenda.
  • Polinard, J. P., Wrinkle, R. D., Longoria, T., & Binder, N. E. (1994). Electoral Structure and Urban Policy:  The Impact on Mexican American Communities. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

1993

  • Longoria, T. (1993). Congressional Caucuses in Congressional Committees. American Review of Politics, 381–386.

1992

  • Longoria, T., Wrinkle, R., Polinard, J., & Meier, K. (1992). Mexican Americans and Municipal Employment:  An Analysis of Status and Pay Level. State and Local Government Review, 36–42.

1991

  • Longoria, T., Polinard, J., & Wrinkle, R. (1991). Representation and Policy:  Appointments of Mexican Americans to Boards and Commissions. Social Science Journal, 259–265.
  • Longoria, T., Polinard, J., & Wrinkle, R. (1991). The Impact of District Elections on the Mexican  American Community:  The Electoral Perspective. Social Science Quarterly, 608–614.
  • Longoria, T., Wrinkle, R., & Polinard, J. (1991). Understanding Intra-Ethnic Attitude Variations: Mexican-Origin Population Views of Immigration. Social Science Quarterly, 379–387.
  • Longoria, T. (1991). Activism and Voter Turnout.

1990

  • Longoria, T., Polinard, J., & Wrinkle, R. (1990). Education and Governance: Representational Links to Second Generation Discrimination. Western Political Quarterly, 631–646.
  • Longoria, T., Wrinkle, R., & Polinard, J. (1990). Mexican American Voter Registration and Turnout: Another Look. Social Science Quarterly, 356–361.
  • Longoria, T. (1990). Activism and Intergovernmental Aid in South Texas.
  • Longoria, T. (1990). Ethnicity, Roll-off, and Judicial Elections.

1989

  • Longoria, T. (1989). Education and Policy: Representational Links to Second Generation Discrimination.

1988

  • Longoria, T. (1988). Family Solidarity Among Hispanic Elderly.
  • Longoria, T. (1988). Mexican American Voter Registration and Turnout:  Another Look.
  • Longoria, T. (1988). Mexican Americans and Educational Policy:  The Impact of Change to District Elections.