Jack Citrin

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Jack Citrin
Born
Shanghai, China
Alma mater McGill University
University of California, Berkeley
OccupationPolitical scientist
Employer(s)University of California, Berkeley
SpouseLeland Rubin

Jack Citrin is an American political scientist. He is the director of the Institute of Governmental Studies and a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author and co-editor of several books about national identity and tax resistance.

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Early life

Citrin was born in Shanghai, and he grew up in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan. [1] He is of Russian-Jewish descent. [1] He graduated from McGill University, and he earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. [2]

Career

Citrin is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. [2] He has served as the director of the Institute of Governmental Studies since 2007. [1]

Citrin is the (co-)author and (co-) editor of several books about national identity and tax resistance, including two with David O. Sears. Their first book together, Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California, published in 1982, was an analysis of the 1978 California Proposition 13. [3] In a review for Political Science Quarterly , Alvin Rabushka suggested, "the book says virtually nothing about the effects of Proposition 13 on the state's economy, its public services, or its political and judicial processes." He added that "their obsession with symbolic racism is wholly unwarranted, both analytically and from a public policy perspective," and he concluded by dismissing the book as "hard to read, because it is written in the language of social psychology and social science jargon." [3]

In American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism, published in 2014, Citrin and Sears studied multiculturalism in relation to civic nationalism versus nativism and patriotism versus chauvinism, and found that most American citizens were patriotic civic nationalists. [1] In a review for Contemporary Sociology , Rhys H. Williams concluded, "This is an optimistic book for those who share a liberal conception of American national identity, culture, and public life" and he added that "they recognize how those most disadvantaged by our current political economy, most specifically African Americans, are at least "on board" with rosy assessments of the nation." [4] However, in a 2017 interview, Citrin admitted that this may have changed due to the "hardening of differences in the political parties." [1]

Personal life

Citrin married Leland Rubin in 1964. [5] He is a naturalized U.S. citizen. [1]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Five Questions for Jack Citrin". California Magazine. Summer 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Jack Citrin". The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Rabushka, Alvin (Summer 1983). "Reviewed Work: Tax Revolt: Something for Nothing in California. by David O. Sears, Jack Citrin". Political Science Quarterly. 98 (2): 321–322. doi:10.2307/2149432. JSTOR   2149432.
  4. Williams, Rhys (May 2016). "Reviewed Work: American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism by Jack Citrin, David O. Sears". Contemporary Sociology. 45 (3): 289–290. doi:10.1177/0094306116641407f. JSTOR   43997534. S2CID   147071846.
  5. "Social and Personal" . The Gazette. Montreal, Canada. August 11, 1965. p. 15. Retrieved January 17, 2019 via Newspapers.com.