Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution ,[1] a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States , campaign finance reform , Senate and filibuster reform, Congress, redistricting, and political polarization.[1]
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , and attended the University of Florida , where in 1966 he received a B.A. in political science , then went on to get an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1977) at the University of Michigan . He first went to Washington D.C. 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 .[1]
In 1989, Mann was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. [2] Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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.[1]
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 , 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 (2003)
The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook , co-editor with Anthony Corrado, Daniel R. Ortiz, and Trevor Potter (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) ISBN 978-0-465-03133-7
One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported , with E. J. Dionne and Norman J. Ornstein (St. Martin's Press , September 2017) ISBN 978-1-250-16405-6
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