Contact Information
Office: 790 Barrows Hall, 102 Moses Hall
E-Mail: gojack@berkeley.edu
Phone: 510 642-4692
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-4pm
People in the Department
Jack Citrin
Heller Professor of Political Science &
Director, Institute of Governmental Studies
Groups: American Politics, Political Behavior
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)
Specialization
Public Opinion, Ethnic Politics, Multiculturalism
Education
Books
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.