Curriculum Vitae JACK CITRIN Current Position: Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Personal Information Office Address: Department of Political Science 210 Barrows Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1950 Office Telephone: 510-642-4692 Home Address: 40 Avis Road Berkeley CA 94707 Home Telephone: 510-5266412 Research and Teaching Interests Education Thesis titles Public Opinion and voting behavior Political Psychology Ethnicity and Political Conflict American national government California politics Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1971. M.A. McGill University, 1963. B.A. McGill University, 1961. Ph.D. Political Disaffection in America: 1958-68. M.A. The Quebec Provincial Election of 1962.
Research Awards Principal Investigator, Social Indicators Development Project, National Science Foundation, 1971-74 Principal Investigator, Tax Revolt Survey, Hewlett Foundation Grant, 1979-80. Planning Committee American National Election Studies as part of National Science Foundation award for 1991 Pilot Survey and 1992 National Election Survey. Research Grant Award for Immigration and Citizenship Project, Chicano Latino Policy Project, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1995. Administrative Appointments Acting Director, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-77. Director, State Data Program, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-80. Graduate Studies Advisor, Department of Political Science, 1983-86. Director, Berkeley Seminar in American Politics and Policy, Institute for Governmental Studies, Summer 1990,1992. Faculty Athletics Representative to NCAA, Spring 1990- Selected Academic Senate and Campus Service Executive Committee, Survey Research Center Executive Committee, Berkeley Program of UC, Washington D.C. Committee on Educational Policy Sub-committee on American History and Institutions (Academic Senate) Committee on Admissions and Enrollment (Academic Senate) Faculty Advisory Group, California Business-Higher Education Forum, Office of the President, University of California. Publications
J. Citrin, United Nations Peacekeeping Activities: A Case Study in Organizational Task Expansion, Denver, University of Denver Monograph Series in World Affairs, vol. 3, 1965-66 Series (excerpts reprinted in M. Barkun and M. Gregg, eds., THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1969. P. M. Sniderman and J. Citrin, "Psychological Sources of Political Belief. Self- Esteem and Isolationist Attitudes," American Political Science Review, vol. 65, no. 2, June 197 1, reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill Political Science reprint series. "The Political Relevance of Trust in Government,"American Political Science Review, vol. 68, no. 3, September, 1974. J. Citrin and D. Elkins, THE POLITICS OF DISAFFECTION AMONG BRITISH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Institute of International Studies, Berkeley, Research Series no. 23. J. Citrin, H. McClosky, J. M. Shanks, and P. Sniderman, "Personal and Political Sources of Political Alienation," British Journal of Political Science, vol. 5, no. 1, 1975. P. Sniderman, J. Citrin, H. McClosky, W.R. Neuman, and J. M. Shanks, "The Stability of Support for the Political System: The Impact of Watergate," American Politics Quarterly, October, 1975. J. Citrin, "Political Alienation as a Social Indicator: Attitudes and Action," Social Indicators Research, vol. 4, no. 2, 1977. D. O. Sears, T. Tyler, J. Citrin and D. Kinder, "Political System Support and Reaction to the Energy Crisis of 1974," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 22, no. 1, 1978. J. Citrin, "The Alienated Voter," Taxing and Spending, vol. 1, no. 1, October, 1978. J. Citrin, "Do People Want Something for Nothing: Public Opinion on Taxes and Spending," National Tax Journal, June 1979, vol. 32, no. 2. J. Citrin, "The Changing American Electorate," in A. Meltsner, ed., POLITICS AND THE OVAL OFFICE, San Francisco, Institute of Contemporary Studies, 1981. J. Citrin and F Levy, "From 13 to 4 and Beyond: The Political Meaning of the Ongoing Tax Revolt in California," in G. Kaufman and K. Rosen, eds., THE PROPERTY TAX REVOLT: THE CASE OF PROPOSITION 13, Cambridge, Mass., Ballinger Publishing Co., 1981.
D. O. Sears and J. Citrin, TAX REVOLT: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING IN CALIFORNIA, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982. Enlarged paperback edition, 1985. J. Citrin, "The Legacy of Proposition 13" in T. Schwadron and P. Richter, eds., CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN TAX REVOLT, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984. J. Citrin and D. P, Green, "Policy and Opinion in California after Proposition 13," National Tax Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, March 1985. J. Citrin and D.P. Green, "Presidential Leadership and the Resurgence of Trust in Government@, British Journal of Political Science, vol. 16, no. 4, October 1986, pp. 431-435. J. Citrin, D.P. Green and B. Reingold, "The Soundness of Our Structure: Political Confidence in the Reagan Years," Public Opinion, Nov. 1987. J. Citrin, "Public Opinion in a Changing California," in T. Bradshaw and C. Bell eds., The Capacity to Respond, Berkeley, Institute for Governmental Studies Press, 1987. D. O. Sears, J. Citrin, and R. Kosterman, "Jesse Jackson and the Southern White Electorate in 1984,@ in L. Moreland, R. Steed and T. Baker eds. Blacks in Southern Politics, Praeger, 1988. M. Kamlet, J. Citrin and F. Levy, "Satisficing Behavior in Spatial Voting Models," Political Methodology, 1988. J. Citrin and D. Green, "The Self-interest Motive in American Public Opinion," in S. Long ed., Research in Micropolitics, vol. 3, Greenwich, JAI Press, 1990, pp. 1-28. J. Citrin, D.P. Green and D.O. Sears, "White Reactions to Black Candidates: When does Race Matter?@ Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 54, May 1990, pp. 74-96. J. Citrin, D.P. Green, B. Reingold and E. Walters, "The 'Official English= Movement and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the United States," Western Political Quarterly, vol. 43 no. 3. September 1990. J. Citrin, "Language Politics and American Identity," The Public Interest, no. 99, Spring 1990. J. Citrin, B. Reingold and D.P. Green, AAmerican Identity and the Politics of Ethnic Change," Journal of Politics, vol. 52, no. 4 November 1990. J. Citrin, "Perot=s Supporters Disdain the Gloom of 'Expert Critics," Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1992.
J. Citrin, APolitical Trust and Risky Policy," in REPORT ON RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL TRUST, Secretary of Energy Advisory Committee, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., 1993. J. Citrin, "Why Can=t American Government Do the Right Thing?" in ROBERT DAHLS THE NEW AMERICAN POLITICAL DISORDER, Berkeley, Institute for Governmental Studies Press, 1994. D.P. Green and J. Citrin, "Measurement Error and the Structure of Attitudes: Are Positive and Negative Judgments Opposites," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 38, no. 1, Jan. 1994. J. Citrin, E.B. Haas, C. Muste and B. Reingold, "Is American Nationalism Changing?: Implications for Foreign Policy," International Politics Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-31, March 1994. J. Citrin, "The Public Landscape for Fiscal Reform in California," in J. Wilson ed., CALIFORNIA FISCAL REFORM: A PLAN FOR ACTION, California Business- Higher Education Forum, Oakland, 1994. J. Citrin, D.P. Green, C. Muste, and C. Wong, "Public Opinion and Immigration Reform," Research Paper Series, Chicano Latino Policy Project, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. J. Citrin, AThe Quest for Community,@ California Journal, February 1995. J. Citrin, ATax Revolts,@ in S.M. Lipset ed., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DEMOCRACY, Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington D.C., 1995. Craig ed. J. Citrin, AWho=s the Boss?: Direct Democracy and Popular Control? in S. THE BROKEN CONTRACT, Boulder, Westview Press, 1995. J. Citrin, AAffirmative Action in the People=s Court,@ The Public Interest, Winter 1996. J. Citrin and A. Campbell, AImmigration and Politics,@ in J. Lubenow ed., GOVERNING THE GOLDEN STATE, Berkeley, Institute for Governmental Studies Press, 1997.
J. Citrin, D.P. Green, C. Muste, and C. Wong, APublic Opinion Toward Immigration Reform: The Role of Economic Motives,@ Journal of Politics, vol. 59, no.2, May 1997. J. Citrin and C. Muste, ATrust in Government and System Support" in J. Robinson, L. Wrightsman, and P. Shaver eds. Measures of Political Attitudes, New York, Academic Press, 1999. D.O. Sears, J. Citrin, S. Cheleden, and C. van Laar, ACultural Diversity and Multicultural Politics: Is Ethnic Balkanization Inevitable?@ in D. Prentice and D. Miller eds., CULTURAL DIVIDES; THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CULTURAL CONTACT, New York, Russell Sage, 1999. J. Citrin and S. Luks, THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL TRUST, Pew Charitable Trust Research Report, 1999. J. Citrin, D.O. Sears, C. Wong, and C. Muste, AMulticulturalism in American Public Opinion,@ British Journal of Political Science, vol. 31, no.2, April 2001. J. Citrin, C. Wong, and B. Duff, AThe Meaning of American National Identity: Patterns of Ethnic Conflict and Consensus,@ in R. Ashmore, L. Jussim, and D. Wilder eds., SOCIAL IDENTITY, GROUP CONFLICT, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. J. Citrin and S. Luks, ADeja Vu all over Again: Revisiting Political Cynicism in an Angry Age, in J. Hibbing and E. Theiss-Morse eds., DISSATISFACTION WITH THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001 B. Cain, J. Citrin, and C. Wong, ETHNIC CONTEXT, RACE RELATIONS, AND CALIFORNIA POLITICS, Public Policy Institute of California Monograph, 2000. J. Citrin, AThe End of American Identity?@ in S. Renshon ed., ONE AMERICA?, Washington D.C., Georgetown University Press, 2001 J. Citrin, AConsensus and Cleavage@ in N.Polsby ed. INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, London, Eslsevier, 2001 B. Cain, J. Citrin, and C. Wong, ETHNIC CONTEXT, RACE RELATIONS, AND CALIFORNIA POLITICS, San Francisco, Public Policy Institute of California Research Monograph, 2000. D. Chong, J. Citrin, and P. Conley, AWhen Does Self-Interest Matter?@ Political Psychology, vol 22, no. 3, October, 2001. J. Sides, J. Cohen, and J.. Citrin AThe Causes and Consequences of Crossover Voting in the 1998 California Election@ in B. Cain and E. R. Gerber eds., VOTING AT THE POLITICAL FAULTLINE; CALIFORNIA=S
EXPERIMENT WITH THE BLANKET PRIMARY, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002 J. Citrin and B. Highton, HOW RACE, ETHNICITY AND IMMIGRATION SHAPE THE CALIFORNIA ELECTORATE, San Francisco, Public Policy Institute of California 2002. J. Citrin, E. Schickler, and J. Sides, What if Everyone Voted? The Impact of Turnout in U. S. Senate Elections, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 47, Jan. 2003. J. Citrin and J. Sides, More Than Nationals: How Identity Choice Matters in the New Europe, in R. Hermann, and T. Risse, and M. Brewer eds., TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES, London, Cambridge University Press, 2004. J. Citrin and J. Sides, Can There be Europe without Europeans? In P. Hermann ed., ADVANCES IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, VOLUME 1, London, Elsevier, 2004. J. Citrin and S. Luks, Patriotic to the Core? American Ambivalence about America, in S. Graig and M. Martinez eds., AMBIVALENCE AND THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL OPINION, New York, Palgrave 2005. K. Pearson and J. Citrin, The Political Assimilation of the Fourth Wave, in T. Lee, K. Ramakrishnan, and R. Ramirez eds., TRANSFORMING SOCIETY, TRANSFORMING AMERICA, Charlottesville, Va. University of Virginia Press, 2005. J. Citrin and J. Sides, European Immigration in the People s Court, in C. Parsons and T. Smeeding eds., IMMIGRATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE, London, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006. A. Campbell, C. Wong, and J. Citrin, Racial Threat, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives, Political Behavior, vol. 27, 2005.. Selected Conference Presentations "Self-Esteem and Isolationist Attitudes," presented at 1969 annual meetings of Western Political Science Association, Honolulu, April 1969.
"Political Culture and Social Change: British Elite Attitudes Toward Economic Growth," paper presented to Bay Area Political Behavior Seminar, November, 1970. "Sources and Consequences of Political Alienation: A Preliminary Report on Indicator Development," paper presented at Madison Conference on Public Support for the Political System, Madison, Wisconsin, August 1973. "Personal and Political Sources of Political Alienation," paper presented at 1973 annual meetings of American Political Science Association, New Orleans, September, 1973. "Some Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Political Alienation," paper presented at the second Ann Arbor conference on the Quality of Life, Ann Arbor, April, 1974. "The Dynamics of Support for Political Authority: The Case of Watergate," paper presented at annual meetings of American Association of Public Opinion Research, Lake George, New York, May, 1974. "The Measurement of Political Alienation: Strategic and Methodological Issues," with J. M. Shanks, paper presented at the Conference on Political Alienation, Iowa City, Iowa, January, 1975. ADiffuse System Support and Responses to the Energy Crisis of 1974," with D. Sears, paper delivered at Stanford Conference on Public Support for the Political System, Spring, 1976. "Political Alienation as a Social Indicator," paper delivered at Cambridge Conference on Subjective Social Indicators, Cambridge, England, Summer, 1975. "Quality of Life and Quality of Government," paper delivered at the 10th Congress of the International Political Science Association, Edinburgh, 1976. "Putting Issues Back Into a Study of Issue Voting," paper prepared for the Conference of Issue Voting, Palo Alto, 1977. "A Political Scientist in Psychology Land," paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Political Psychology, New York, 1978. "Do People Want Something for Nothing: Public Opinion on Taxes and Spending," paper delivered at the Santa Barbara Conference on the Tax Revolt, 1978. "Causes of Government Growth," paper delivered at the National Science Foundation on the Future of the Public Sector, Washington, D.C., 1979. "Public Opinion and Public Policy in the Aftermath of Proposition 13," paper presented at the 13 th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Paris, France, 1985.
AThe White Response to Jesse Jackson in 1984@ (with D. O. Sears and R. Kosterman), paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, 1985, and American Psychological Association, Anaheim, 1985. "Public Opinion and the Changing Ethnography in California", paper presented at Conference on Research Needs and California Society, Berkeley, California, May, 1986. "White Voters and Black Candidates: Does Race Matter?" paper presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Anaheim, California. "When is Self-interest a Political Motive?" paper presented at the 1987 Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, San Francisco, California. "Public Opinion and Presidential Style," paper presented at 1987 meeting of the Northern California Political Science Association. "Trust After Irangate: Crises and Political Support", paper presented at 1988 meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco. "Evaluating New Measures of Political Support", comments presented at 1988 Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. "American Identity and the Politics of Ethnicity," paper presented at 1988 Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology. "Something for Nothing Revisited," paper presented at 1989 meeting of Pacific Chapter of American Association of Public Research. "The English Only Movement and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the United States@ (with Beth Reingold) paper delivered at 1989 annual meeting of Western Political Science Association, Salt Lake City, and 1989 Canadian Political Science. "Jarvis Redux: Is the Tax Revolt in California Dead or Alive?" research prepared for 1990 annual meeting of Public Policy and Management Association. "Is American Nationalism Waning?" (with E.B. Haas), paper prepared for 1991 annual meeting of the International Society for Socio-Economics.
"Measures of American Identity and New Ethnic Issues in the 1991 NES Pilot Study," paper presented to the National Election Study Conference on the 1992 study, Ann Arbor, May 1992. "Changing Conceptions of American Nationalism and American Foreign Policy," paper presented to the Institute for the Study of Global Conflict Conference in American Foreign Policy, Berkeley, October 1992. "Measurement Error and the Structure of Attitudes" (with D.P. Green), paper presented to the 1992 meeting of Political Methodologists, Atlanta. "Political Disaffection and Third Party Candidates: Waiting for Perot?" (with E. Oliver and C. Timko), paper presented to the 1993 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association. "What Ordinary Americans Think about Multiculturalism", with D.O. Sears, S. Vidanage, and N. Valentino, presented at 1994 Annual meetings of American Psychology Association. "American Attitudes toward Multiculturalism: Ethnic Conflict in the Midst of Diversity," with D.O. Sears, S. Vidanage, and N. Valentino, presented at 1994 Annual meetings of American Political Science Association. "Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform," with D.P. Green, C. Muste, and C. Wong, presented at 1995 Annual meeting of Western Political Science Association, winner of Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper of conference. "Liberalism versus Multiculturalism: Mass Opinion toward the New Ethnic Agenda," with D. O. Sears, C. Muste, and C. Wong, presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association. "Black Exceptionalism in American Public Opinion," with D. O. Sears and C. Van Laar, presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association. "Progressive and Populist Views of Tax Reform," presented at 1995 annual meeting of National Tax Association. "On the Trail of the Angry White Male," with C. Muste, and C. Wong, presented at the 1996 Annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology. AEthnic Context and Racial Threat: The Vote on California=s Proposition 209,@ with B. Cain, C. Wong, and A. Campbell, presented at the 1997 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. ASymbolic Meanings of American Nationalism,@ with B. Duff, presented at the 1998 Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology. AWhen Does Self-Interest Matter?@ with D. Chong and P. Conley, presented at the 1999 Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
@More Democracy or More Democrats?: The Effects of Increased Turnout in U.S. Senate Elections,@ with Eric Schickler and John Sides, presented at 2001 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. European versus National Identities: Problems of building a Multinational Community, with John Sides presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, 2000. Political Cynicism Revisited, with Samantha Luks, paper presented at Hendricks Annual Symposium on American Politics, University of Nebraska, 2001. National and Ethnic Identities: Competing or Complementary, with Kathryn Pearson David Sears, and John Sides, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2002. Identity Choice and the Politics of Language in the United States, with Kathryn Pearson presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, 2002. Assimilating the Fourth Wave: Identities, Attitudes, Participation, with Kathryn Pearson presented at the Berkeley Nation of Immigrants Conference, 2003. Direct Democracy Takes on Bilingual Education: Framing Effects on State Initiatives, with Jocelyn Kiley and Kathryn Pearson presented at 2003 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. European Immigration in the People s Court: Economic Context of Cultural Threat?, with John Sides, presented at 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Selected Professional Activities Executive Committee, Pacific Chapter, American Association of Public Opinion Research. Board Member and Secretary, Political Alienation Research Group, International Political Science Association. Planning Committee, 1987 Annual Conference of International Society for Political Psychology.
Planning Committee, 1992 American National Election Study Advisory Committee, Civic Involvement and Democracy Project, Georgetown University, 2003 and ongoing. Chair, panelist at professional meetings (American Political Science Association, American Association of Public Opinion Research, International Political Science Association, American Psychological Association, Western Political Science Association, International Society for Political Psychology.