Jack Citrin

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.

Early life Citrin was born in Shanghai, and he grew up in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan. He is of Russian-Jewish descent.

Career Citrin is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. 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." However, in a 2017 interview, Citrin admitted that this may have changed due to the "hardening of differences in the political parties." He is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Selected works