JANET GRENZKE Janet Grenzke is partner in and founder of Abacus Associates. A recognized expert who brings more than 25 years of survey research experience to each campaign and project, Janet has conducted surveys and provided strategic advice to presidential campaigns in three countries and to winning campaigns in the United States at the federal, state, and local level. She has provided strategic advice to education associations in 35 states and to numerous other progressive organizations across the country. Janet was featured as a "Mover and Shaker" in the Fall 2000 issue of Campaigns & Elections.
A veteran educator and scholar, Janet has taught polling and applied statistics to political consultants at the Graduate School of Political Management, now at George Washington University. She has trained political activists at national seminars, including those sponsored by Campaigns & Elections magazine, The Women's Campaign Fund, and by education, transportation, human rights, and tobacco control groups. Larry Sabato, a prominent writer on electoral issues, noted that Janet Grenzke "is considered to be among the top dozen" national experts in campaign finance. Her research in the area of campaign finance was one of seven works cited in the brief submitted in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, in which the Supreme Court upheld state contribution limits to candidates.
Prior to founding Abacus Associates in 1990, Janet conducted research and taught courses as a member of the political science faculties of Smith College and the Universities of Massachusetts and Michigan. Janet holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. She is the author of the book Influence, Change and the Legislative Process and numerous journal articles on electoral politics.
