Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the
W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the
Brookings Institution
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a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on
elections
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in the
United States
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,
campaign finance reform, Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization.
Biography
He was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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, and attended the
University of Florida
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, where in 1966 he received a B.A. in
political science
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, then went on to get an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1977) at the
University of Michigan
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. He first went to
Washington D.C.
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in 1969, where he worked as a
Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator
Philip A. Hart and Representative
James G. O'Hara, both Democrats.
Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governance Studies at Brookings. Before that, Mann was executive director of the
American Political Science Association.
Mann is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s
Frank J. Goodnow and
Charles E. Merriam Awards.
Bibliography
* ''Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional Elections'' (1978)
* ''Media Polls in American Politics'', co-editor with Gary R. Orren (1992)
* ''Renewing Congress'', with
Norman J. Ornstein (1992, 1993)
* ''Values and Public Policy'', co-editor with
Henry J. Aaron and
Timothy Taylor (1994)
* ''Congress, the Press, and the Public'', co-editor with
Norman J. Ornstein (1994)
* ''Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy'', co-editor with
Norman J. Ornstein (1995)
* ''Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook'', with
Anthony Corrado,
Daniel R. Ortiz,
Trevor Potter
Trevor Potter (born October 24, 1955) is a lawyer, former commissioner and chairman of the United States Federal Election Commission. He is the Founder and President of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit organization which works in the areas ...
, and
Frank J. Sorauf, eds. (1997)
* ''Vital Statistics on Congress, 1999-2000'', with
Norman J. Ornstein and
Michael Malbin (1999)
* ''The Permanent Campaign and Its Future'', co-editor with
Norman J. Ornstein (2000)
* ''Governance for a New Century: Japanese Challenges, American Experience'', co-editor with
Sasaki Takeshi
* ''Vital Statistics on Congress'', with
Norman J. Ornstein and
Michael J. Malbin (2002)
* ''Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms'', co-editor with
Anthony Corrado and
Trevor Potter
Trevor Potter (born October 24, 1955) is a lawyer, former commissioner and chairman of the United States Federal Election Commission. He is the Founder and President of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit organization which works in the areas ...
(2003)
* ''The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook'', co-editor with
Anthony Corrado,
Daniel R. Ortiz, and
Trevor Potter
Trevor Potter (born October 24, 1955) is a lawyer, former commissioner and chairman of the United States Federal Election Commission. He is the Founder and President of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit organization which works in the areas ...
(2003)
* ''The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track'' co-authored with
Norman J. Ornstein (2006)
* ''
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism'', with
Norman J. Ornstein (
Basic Books, May 2012)
* ''One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported'', with
E. J. Dionne
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and
Norman J. Ornstein (
St. Martin's Press
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, September 2017)
References
External links
Thomas Mann page at Brookings*
Video (and audio) of conversation between Mannand
Lawrence Lessig
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on
Bloggingheads.tv
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1944 births
Living people
University of Florida alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Scientists from Milwaukee
American political scientists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Brookings Institution people