Isaac William Martin
is an associate 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, and received honorable mention for the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association. He is also a co-editor of two books on the politics and sociology of taxation.
He is presently at work on a comparative historical study of rich people's movements, or grassroots campaigns to redistribute resources categorically to the rich.
Curriculum vitae
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Selected publications
(For a complete list, please consult the curriculum vitae)
The New Fiscal Sociology (co-editor, 2009) [website]
Proposition 13 Fever: How California's Tax Limitation Spread.
California Journal of Politics and Policy, vol. 1, no. 1 (2009) [stable url]
The Permanent Tax Revolt (2008) [website]
[selected reviews and media mentions: California Journal of Politics and Policy , the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Forbes.com (ungated version via the New America Foundation) Marginal Revolution, OrgTheory, Tax Notes (ungated version via the Tax History Project)]
Does School Finance Litigation Cause Taxpayer Revolt?
Law and Society Review, vol. 40, no. 3 (2006) [pdf]
Selected course syllabi
The City and Social Theory (Urban Studies and Planning 3, spring 2009) [pdf]
The Design of Social Research (Urban Studies and Planning 125, winter 2008) [pdf]
The Welfare State (Sociology 246, graduate seminar winter 2009) [pdf]