Isaac William Martin


I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California, San Diego.

I study how social protest affects the distribution of resources by democratic states. My first book, The Permanent Tax Revolt, won the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association, and received an honorable mention for the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association. I have also co-edited two books about the history and politics of taxation, and have published articles about social movements and public policy in the American Journal of Sociology, the Law and Society Review, and the Urban Affairs Review.