Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson

Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson is a professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on state legislative term limits and legislative oversight of the executive branch. She was the principal investigator on a major study of term limits in Michigan that involved interviews with 460 state legislators over 10 years as Michigan implemented a state term limits ballot initiative. She participated in two studies of legislative oversight of the executive branch in collaboration with the Levin Center at Wayne State University’s Law School, a 50 state study of oversight and a study of contract monitoring in selected states. She also serves as the Academic Director of the State Oversight Academy at the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.