Isaac William Martin
is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California - San Diego, where he also teaches in the undergraduate urban studies and planning program.
He is generally interested in social movements, political sociology, and public policy. His research is especially concerned with fiscal sociology, or the social bases and social consequences of fiscal policy, with an emphasis on the the US and other capitalist democracies. His book The Permanent Tax Revolt (Stanford University Press, 2008) won the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. He is also a co-editor of two forthcoming books on the politics and sociology of taxation.
He is presently pursuing two main research projects. The first is a comparative historical study of rich people's movements, or grassroots campaigns that sought to redistribute resources categorically to the rich. The second is a comparative study of tax protest in affluent, democratic, capitalist societies.
Curriculum vitae
Selected publications
(For a complete list, please consult the curriculum vitae)
The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008) [website]
Does School Finance Litigation Cause Taxpayer Revolt?
Law and Society Review, vol. 40, no. 3 (2006) [pdf]
Do Living Wage Policies Diffuse?
Urban Affairs Review, vol. 41, no. 5 (2006) [pdf]
Dawn of the Living Wage
Urban Affairs Review, vol. 36, no. 4 (2001) [pdf]
Selected course syllabi
Social Inequality and Public Policy (Urban Studies and Planning 133) [pdf]
The Design of Social Research (Urban Studies and Planning 125) [pdf]