Background
Sorauf, Francis Joseph was born on May 31, 1928 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Francis Joseph and Mary Estelle (Norton) Sorauf.
(Here is a lucid, groundbreaking book on money in American...)
Here is a lucid, groundbreaking book on money in American elections that defines the subject and puts its complex and often arcane components into an orderly, comprehensible picture. This balance overview centers on congressional and presidential campaigns and the individuals, PACs, parties, and public monies that fund them. Professor Sorauf also deals systematically with the politics of campaign finance and with the important issues of policy and impact that surround the entire subject. Without moralism and without muckraking, this comprehensive work decisively takes up the concern that money affects the outcomes of elections, that it wins undue influence in the making of public policy, and that it creates a new class of influentials in American Politics. The following from the author's Introduction: "The plan of this book should be evident from its structure and text, even from its table of contents. But an author's hopes for a book may be less apparent. I have written this one to bring what have been disparate materials into a summary and interpretation of what we know about a single subject: the way we finance American election campaigns. I hope it will help to organize and define, both for research and for teaching, what can easily seem to be a mixture of arcane data, insider's lore, and heated judgments."
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Sorauf, Francis Joseph was born on May 31, 1928 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Francis Joseph and Mary Estelle (Norton) Sorauf.
Bachelor of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1950; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1953.
Instructor, then assistant professor, Pennsylvania State University, 1953-1961; visiting associate professor, U. Arizona, 1960-1961; member of faculty, University of Minnesota, since 1961; professor political science, University of Minnesota, since 1965; Regents' professor political science, University of Minnesota, since 1991; department chairman, University of Minnesota, 1966-1969; dean, University of Minnesota (College Liberal Arts), 1973-1978. Fulbright lecturer, Italy, 1964-1965.
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(A hardcover, 450 pages. Third edition.)
Member Minneapolis Library Board, 1966-1969. President Minnesota Opera Company, 1980-1982. Member American Political Science Association (council 1968-1970, chairman nominating committee 1974-1975, vice president 1976-1977, Atherton prize 1962), Midwest Political Science Association (president 1973-1974), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.