Michael Malbin has sent the following announcement to the Election Law Listserv:

It is my sad duty to inform readers of this list that Herbert E. Alexander, the dean of campaign finance scholarship in the United States, died of cancer on Thursday April 3. He was 80 years old.
Alexander was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Southern California and had been director of the Citizens’ Research Foundation from its inception in 1958 through his retirement in 1998. For twenty years, he also served as chairman of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption. For the past ten years he lived in Silver Spring, Maryland for the past ten years, with his most recent work—a comparative project on disclosure in collaboration with the International Foundation for Election Systems—published in 2003. A longer obituary will be printed in coming months in PS: Political Science and Politics, a publication of the American Political Science Association.
Services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, at Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial Chapel, Rockville, Maryland. Interment will follow at Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney, Maryland.
Shortly before he died, Professor Alexander gave the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) a complete collection of his published works, ranging from his well known collection of twenty full length books to peer reviewed articles, published reports and many other items – about 400 titles in all. CFI will be setting up a library of these works in its offices and will also set up a Herbert E. Alexander page with some of this material on its website. CFI will also be sponsoring a reception in Herb’s memory at the 2008 annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, to be held in Boston on August 28-31.
Herb was predeceased by his wife Nancy G. Alexander and granddaughter Victoria Alexander. He is survived by three sons, Michael (Sandra) of East Windsor, New Jersey; Andrew (Lisa) of Toronto, Canada; and Kenneth (Susan) of Olney, Maryland; five grandchildren; and his companion, Barbara B. Seidel.
Michael J. Malbin

Herb was one of the pioneers in the field, and deeply committed to its growth. He was a fine man and will be missed.