Mark Baldassare
is Director of Research and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute
of California. He also holds the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair
in Public Policy and directs the PPIC Statewide Survey-- a large-scale
public opinion project designed to develop an in-depth profile of social,
economic, and political forces at work in California elections and in
shaping the state’s public policies. His most recent book, A California
State of Mind: The Conflicted Voter in a Changing World (2002), examines
the beliefs, concerns, and public policy preferences of Californians
and how their distrust of government has shaped the state's political
climate. Before joining PPIC, Mark was a professor of urban and regional
planning at the University of California, Irvine, where he held the
Johnson Chair in Civic Governance. He was also founder and director
of the Orange County Annual Survey, based at UCI. He is the author of
eight other books, including California in the New Millennium: The Changing
Social and Political Landscape (2000), When Government Fails: The Orange
County Bankruptcy (1998), and Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation
in America (1986) --a study of residents' perceptions and policy preferences
relating to growth and industrialization of the suburbs. Mark holds
a B.A. in sociology and psychology from the State University of New
York, Stony Brook; an M.A. in sociology from the University of California,
Santa Barbara; and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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