How to Design a Popular Tax: Inferences from California's Experiment with Direct Democracy

Isaac William Martin, PhD, March 17
How to Design a Popular Tax: Inferences from California's Experiment with Direct Democracy
Isaac William Martin, PhD, is a professor of urban studies and planning at UC San Diego. Dr. Martin is the author of numerous books and articles on such topics as housing policy, municipal taxation, and the political economy of inequality. His books include Foreclosed America (Stanford, 2015), with Christopher Niedt; Rich People’s Movements (Oxford, 2013); and The Permanent Tax Revolt (Stanford, 2008). He is editor of The New Handbook of Political Sociology (Cambridge, 2020), with Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, and Joya Misra; The New Fiscal Sociology (Cambridge, 2009), with Ajay K. Mehrotra and Monica Prasad; and After the Tax Revolt (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2009), with Jack Citrin. His articles have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Law and Society Review, Urban Affairs Review, and other journals.
He has held various offices within the American Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the Social Science History Association, and he has served as a consulting editor to journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Social Problems, and Sociological Science.