Jack Citrin
Professor and
Director, Institute of Governmental Studies of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-4692
Office Location: 790 Barrows / 102 Moses
Office Hours: W 1:30-3
Summer 2009 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
Professor Citrin teaches in the fields of political behavior and comparative
government and his research interests include political sociology
and nationalism. Professor Citrin received his B.A. and M.A.
from McGill University and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His
publications include Tax Revolt, Something for Nothing
in California (co-author, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1982), "American Identity and the Politics of Ethnic
Change," Journal of Politics, 1990, and Crisis of
American Identities: The Politics of Multiculturalism
(1996).
Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California (1982)
This book is an in-depth study of a notable taxpayers' rebellion: Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13, the Gann measure of 1979, and Proposition 9 (Jarvis 11) of 1980. The authors consider a variety of partial explanations: the self-interest of certain groups, the apathy of others, the role of party affiliation, the specter of symbolic racism, the meaning of mass mood surges. They also include a new preface and a new chapter reviewing the consequences of the revolt and the responses to the fiscal stress.